The Andre Sakharov papers comprise personal and professional papers related to Andre Sakharov's family; his life and work with his wife, Elena Bonner; his work as a physicist; his campaign to limit the testing and proliferation of nuclear weapons; his human rights activities, including hunger strikes undertaken by him and Elena Bonner; his role in the development of perestroika; and the activities of many others in the Soviet Union's human rights movement. Includes various formats of Sakharov's two key autobiographical works: Memoirs; and Moscow and beyond, an autobiographical novel. Substantial material for and about his wife, Elena Bonner, is included; her papers are included separately as a component of the Andrei Sakharov Archives at Harvard University. Formats of material present include manuscripts, drawings, photographs, electronic media, maps, printed material, and a few artifacts such as Sakharov's academic robes.