About Ruth Bonner
Ruf Grigorievna Bonner, also known as Ruth Bonner, was a Soviet Communist activist who spent eight years in a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. She was the mother of the human rights activist Yelena Bonner and the mother-in-law of physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov. Bonner's first husband was Armenian Levon Sarkisovich Kocharian, who died when Yelena was a year old.
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