Raamat sisaldab Robert van Voreni mälestusi aastatest 1977-2008, mis annavad unikaalse sissevaate Nõukogude Liidu dissidentlikku liikumisse 1980-ndatel aastatel, nii NSV Liidu sees kui väljaspool.


The book contains the memoirs of Robert van Voren covering the period 1977-2008 and provides unique insights into the dissident movement in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, both inside the country and abroad.

As a result of his close friendship with many of the leading dissidents and his dozens of trips to the USSR as a courier, he had intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of the dissident movement and participated in many of the campaigns to obtain the release of Soviet political prisoners. In the late 1980s he became involved in building a humane and ethical practice of psychiatry in Eastern Europe and the (ex-)USSR, based on respect for the human rights of persons with mental illness.