This is Moscow speaking, and other stories

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1969. First U.S. Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear, and soiling. Review copy slip laid in.. 159, [1] p. 23 cm. Frontis. Occasional footnotes. First published in France under title: Ici Moscou. Contents: This is Moscow speaking. --Hands. --Atonement. --The man from MINAP. From Wikipedia: "Yuli Markovich Daniel (November 15, 1925 December 30, 1988) was a Soviet dissident writer, poet, translator, and political prisoner. He frequently wrote under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak. Yuli Daniel was born in Moscow, the son of the Yiddish playwright M. Daniel (Mark Meyerovich. In 1942, during World War II, Yuli Daniel lied about his age and volunteered to serve on the 2nd Ukrainian and the 3rd Belorussian fronts. In 1944 he was critically wounded in his legs and was demobilized. In 1950, Daniel graduated from Moscow Pedagogical Institute, and went to work as a schoolteacher in Kaluga and Moscow. He also published translations of verse from a variety of languages, and, like his friend Andrei Sinyavsky, wrote topical stories and novellas ("Moscow Speaking") and smuggled them to France to be published under pseudonyms. In 1965, Daniel and Sinyavsky were arrested and tried in the infamous Sinyavsky-Daniel trial. Both writers entered a plea of not guilty. On February 14, 1966, Daniel was sentenced to five years of hard labor for "anti-Soviet activity". Sinyavsky and Daniel did not intend to oppose the Soviet Union. Daniel was genuinely worried about a resurgence of the Cult of Personality under Khrushchev, which inspired his story "This is Moscow Speaking"."