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Soviet Dissent and the Politics of Human Rights
B Nathans
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Description for Soviet Dissent and the Politics of Human Rights
Hardback. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691117034
SKU
V9780691117034
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99-50
About B Nathans
Benjamin Nathans is the author of Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia, which was awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Vucinich Book Prize, and the Lincoln Book Prize, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement, ... Read more
Reviews for Soviet Dissent and the Politics of Human Rights
"Thoughtful, superbly researched and gracefully written study of the Russian dissident movement. . . . [A] riveting history."
-Gary Saul Morson, Wall Street Journal "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause offers refreshingly clear-eyed insights into the idiosyncratic world of those who fought for freedom behind the Iron Curtain. . . . [It] empathetically traces the stories of those who broke ... Read more
-Gary Saul Morson, Wall Street Journal "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause offers refreshingly clear-eyed insights into the idiosyncratic world of those who fought for freedom behind the Iron Curtain. . . . [It] empathetically traces the stories of those who broke ... Read more