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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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Main Author: Nathans, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Dissenters > Soviet Union > History.
Social movements > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1945-1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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