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Or, how KGB officers broke into Solzhenitsyn's apartment and seized three copies of I The First Circle i , described by Martin as the "novel's fateful arrest" (p. 92). Barbara Martin's new book on Soviet "dissidents" deserves to be read and re-read. The story of Soviet dissidence is told through the trajectories of four individuals who became popular in the West: Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, Aleksandr Nekrich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Roy Medvedev. [Extracted from the article]