To the success of our hopeless cause the many lives of the Soviet dissident movement
Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world's imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings, petitioned in support of arrested intellectuals...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue : to live like free people -- Don Quixote in the land of Soviets -- Involuntary protagonists -- Transparency meeting -- The court is in session -- Rights talk -- Chain reaction -- The dissident repertoire -- From circle to square -- Leave the politics to us -- Will the dissident movement survive? -- Recrimination and reassessment -- Taking the initiative -- The inner sanctum of Volpinism -- The fifth directorate -- Fallen idols -- How to conduct yourself -- Allies, bystanders, adversaries -- Rights-defenders among the nations -- Dissident fictions -- The kindness of strangers -- Adoptees at the gate -- Final act -- Conclusion : afterlives. | |
| 520 | |a Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world's imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings, petitioned in support of arrested intellectuals, and circulated banned samizdat texts. Soviet authorities arrested dissidents, subjected them to bogus trials and vicious press campaigns, sentenced them to psychiatric hospitals and labor camps, sent them into exile-and transformed them into martyred heroes. Against all odds, the dissident movement undermined the Soviet system and unexpectedly hastened its collapse. Taking its title from a toast made at dissident gatherings, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause is a definitive history of a remarkable group of people who helped change the twentieth century, from Nobel laureates Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn to many others who are virtually unknown today. | ||
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