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The Dissidents
A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990
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2020
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The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidents
It has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Unionenough 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.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3773-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3774-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
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backcover1
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
First Steps No access Pages 5 - 27
Graduate Studies: A Double Miracle No access Pages 28 - 37
Immersion: Daily Life in Khrushchev's Russia No access Pages 38 - 68
Explusion: Cultural Trends, Literary Friends, and the Sharp Edges of the Soviet State No access Pages 69 - 102
The Emergence of Dissent: Bringing Dissidents and the Emerging Human Rights Movement to the World's Attention No access Pages 103 - 119
The Other '68: Upheaval in the Soviet Bloc and the Chronicle of Current Events No access Pages 120 - 131
Two Early Giants of Soviet Dissent: Marchenko and Grigorenko No access Pages 132 - 149
Confronting the Naysayers in the West No access Pages 150 - 163
"The Mental State of Such People Is Not Normal": Exposing the Political Abuse of Psychiatry No access Pages 164 - 184
Dignity under Persecution: Dissent among the Ethnic Minorities No access Pages 185 - 195
Religious Persecution, Religious Dissent No access Pages 196 - 202
Fighting on Old and New Fronts: 1968 to 1983 No access Pages 203 - 214
Photo Insert No access Pages photo insert 11 - 214
Publishing Samizdat in the West No access Pages 215 - 219
Dissent and Reform under Gorbachev: Uncertain Terrain No access Pages 220 - 241
Upending Manufactured Schizophrenia No access Pages 242 - 256
The End: RIP USSR, 1917 to 1991 No access Pages 257 - 288
Some Conclusions No access Pages 289 - 294
Works by Peter Reddaway Cited in this Volume, By Year No access Pages 295 - 300
