Looking to the Future

Elena Bonner, a writer and human rights activist, is a former member of the Communist party who was sentenced in 1984 to five years in internal exile for her dissident activities (she was released, along with her husband, Andrei Sakharov, in 1986). She is the author of the memoir Alone Together (New York: Knopf, 1986). This article was translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.