A Question of Madness

The Story Of MedvedevS Own Hospitalization And The Efforts Of His Twin Brother To Secure His Release Are Sensitively Chronicled In This Dramatic Hour-By-Hour Account Of The Nineteen Days That Began With An Ominous Knock On The Door And EndedOr Did It? With ZhoresS Conditional Release. The Format Of The Book Is Brilliantly Conceived Taking The Form Of A Dual Autobiographical Account With Alternate Chapters By Each Of The Brothers Medvedev. Alan M. Dershowitz New York Times Book Review Zhores Medvedev A Soviet Biochemist And Outspoken Critic Of The Soviet Bureaucracy Who Was Railroaded Into A Mental Hospital And His Brother Historian Roy Medvedev Who Rallied The Soviet Scientific And Intellectual Community In Protest Together Tell The Story Of Repression By Psychiatry In Russia Today.