Red Square at noon

Natalya Gorbanevskaya, a young poet with two small children, set out one day to protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. This was not her first act of protest but it was the one which led, further down the line, to a life of activism and critical commentary on the USSR. This book is the story of that protest and the events which followed. This is one of the chronicles of those terrible times and the results for individuals of punitive measures against democratic protest.