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The Dissidents
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Author : Peter Reddaway
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2020-02-11
The Dissidents written by Peter Reddaway and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-11 with Political Science categories.
The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidents It has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union—enough time for the role that the courageous dissidents ultimately contributed to the communist system's collapse to have been largely forgotten, especially in the West. This book brings to life, for contemporary readers, the often underground work of the men and women who opposed the regime and authored dissident texts, known as samizdat, that exposed the tyrannies and weaknesses of the Soviet state both inside and outside the country. Peter Reddaway spent decades studying the Soviet Union and got to know these dissidents and their work, publicizing their writings in the West and helping some of them to escape the Soviet Union and settle abroad. In this memoir he captures the human costs of the repression that marked the Soviet state, focusing in particular on Pavel Litvinov, Larisa Bogoraz, General Petro Grigorenko, Anatoly Marchenko, Alexander Podrabinek, Vyacheslav Bakhmin, and Andrei Sinyavsky. His book describes their courage but also puts their work in the context of the power struggles in the Kremlin, where politicians competed with and even succeeded in ousting one another. Reddaway's book takes readers beyond Moscow, describing politics and dissident work in other major Russian cities as well as in the outlying republics.
Dinner With The Dissidents
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Author : John Tesarsch
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-08-28
Dinner With The Dissidents written by John Tesarsch and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with Fiction categories.
It is 1970, and the Kremlin is struggling to quell dissent. Though censored at home, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is lauded in the West for exposing the underbelly of communism. Now the Nobel laureate is rumoured to be writing his most devastating work yet. The KGB turns to Leonid Krasnov, an aspiring young writer. It promises to make him Moscow’s next literary star if he can infiltrate Solzhenitsyn’s inner circle and uncover what the great author is hiding. At first Leonid complies, but when he falls in love with Klara, a dissident musician, his allegiances waver. By then he is enmeshed in a plot that is more sinister than he could ever have imagined. Many years later, Leonid is a recluse living in Canberra under an assumed name. Haunted by his past, he seeks one last, desperate chance to make amends. Dinner with the Dissidents is a gripping portrayal of tumultuous times, and a thrilling story of love, courage and deception.
Dissidents In Communist Central Europe
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Author : Kacper Szulecki
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-09-03
Dissidents In Communist Central Europe written by Kacper Szulecki and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with History categories.
This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989. It argues that our understanding of the transnational activist would not be what it is today without the input of Central European oppositionists and ties the term to the global emergence and evolution of human rights. The book examines how we define dissidents and explores the association of political resistance to authoritarian regimes, as well as the impact of domestic and international recognition of the dissident figure. Turning to literature to analyse the meaning and impact of the dissident label, the book also incorporates interviews and primary accounts from former activists. Combining a unique theoretical approach with new empirical material, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary history, politics and culture in Central Europe.
Dinner With The Dissidents Reading Copy
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Author : John Tesarsch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-28
Dinner With The Dissidents Reading Copy written by John Tesarsch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with categories.
The Legacy Of Soviet Dissent
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Author : Robert Horvath
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
The Legacy Of Soviet Dissent written by Robert Horvath and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.
During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight. This book restores the dissidents to their rightful place in Russian history. Using a vast array of samizdat and published sources, it shows how ideas formulated in the dissident milieu clashed with the original programme of perestroika, and shaped the course of democratisation in post-Soviet Russia. Some of these ideas - such the dissidents' preoccupation with glasnost and legality, and their critique of revolutionary violence - became part of the agenda of Russia's democratic movement. But this book also demonstrates that dissidents played a crucial role in the rise of the new Russian radical nationalism. Both the friends and foes of Russian democracy have a dissident lineage.
Dissidents Among Dissidents
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Author : Ilya Budraitskis
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2022-01-18
Dissidents Among Dissidents written by Ilya Budraitskis and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Political Science categories.
How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture? Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postmodern nationalism that now prevails in Russia, and describes the post-Soviet evolution of its left. He incisively describes the twists and contradictions of the Kremlin's geopolitical fantasies, which blend up-to-date references to "information wars" with nostalgic celebrations of the tsars of Muscovy. Despite the revival of aggressive Cold War rhetoric, he argues, the Putin regime takes its bearings not from any Soviet inheritance, but from reactionary thinkers such as the White émigré Ivan Ilyin. Budraitskis makes an invaluable contribution by reconstructing the forgotten history of the USSR's dissident left, mapping an entire alternative tradition of heterodox Marxist and socialist thought from Khrushchev's Thaw to Gorbachev's perestroika. Doubly outsiders, within an intelligentsia dominated by liberal humanists, they offer a potential way out of the impasse between condemnations of the entire Soviet era and blanket nostalgia for Communist Party rule--suggesting new paths for the left to explore.
The Dissident
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Author : Nell Freudenberger
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
The Dissident written by Nell Freudenberger and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Fiction categories.
From the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes an intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, identity, and the shining chaos of every day American life. Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one-year artist's residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anselm's School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school's most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. The Traverses are too preoccupied with their own problems to pay their foreign guest too much attention, and the dissident is delighted to be left alone—his past links with radical movements give him good reason to avoid careful scrutiny. The trouble starts when he and his American hosts begin to view one another with clearer eyes.
The Dissidents
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Author : Rosa Miriam Elizalde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Dissidents written by Rosa Miriam Elizalde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Cubans categories.
In April 2003, seventy-five self-styled Cuban "dissidents" were tried, convicted, and sentenced to long prison terms for acting as paid agents of Washington, organizing to undermine the revolutionary government of Cuba. This is the inside story. Who the "dissidents" are. How they were organized, financed, and directed. Based on testimony of Cuban revolutionaries who infiltrated their ranks and gave evidence at the trials. It is also a portrait of the revolutionary men and women who, for more than forty-five years have been capable of carrying out such difficult and dangerous undercover assignments in defense of the working people of Cuba. Editora Politica
The Dissident
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
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Slaughter Of The Dissidents
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Author : Jerry Bergman
language : en
Publisher: Slaughter of the Dissidents
Release Date : 2008
Slaughter Of The Dissidents written by Jerry Bergman and has been published by Slaughter of the Dissidents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Law categories.
This book chronicles numerous case studies in depth and examines the motivations and actions behind discrimination against Darwin Doubters. This is a groundbreaking work on this topic, and no other treatments in any other book is currently known. Authors Dr. Jerry Bergman and Kevin Wirth spent 30 years researching and collecting information for this volume.