Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a notable former Soviet political dissident, author and political activist. Bukovsky was one of the first to expose the use of psychiatric imprisonment against political prisoners in the Soviet Union. He spent a total of twelve years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and in psikhushkas, forced-treatment psychiatric hospitals used by the government as special prisons.