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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
Author | : Benjamin Nathans |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691255576 |
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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 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. Benjamin Nathans’s vivid narrative tells the dramatic story of the men and women who became dissidents—from Nobel laureates Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn to many others who are virtually unknown today. Drawing on diaries, memoirs, personal letters, interviews, and KGB interrogation records, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause reveals how dissidents decided to use Soviet law to contain the power of the Soviet state. This strategy, as one of them put it, was “simple to the point of genius: in an unfree country, they began to conduct themselves like free people.” An extraordinary account of the Soviet dissident movement, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause shows how dissidents spearheaded the struggle to break free of the USSR’s totalitarian past, a struggle that continues in Putin’s Russia—and that illuminates other struggles between hopelessness and perseverance today.
Propaganda Politics and Violence in Cambodia
Author | : Steve Heder,Judy Ledgerwood |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781315285870 |
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Describes and analyses the propaganda and violence of the four Cambodian parties to the 1991 Paris peace agreements. This volume explores Cambodia during the UNTAC period and sets the events within the larger context of Khmer politics, history and culture.
The Legacy of Soviet Dissent
Author | : Robert Horvath |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134317981 |
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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.
Rethinking the Soviet Experience
Author | : Stephen F. Cohen |
Publsiher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195040166 |
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Written in 1985, this book cuts through the Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and later political realities. The author probes Soviet history, society, and politics to explain how the U.S.S.R. remained stable from revolution through the mid-1980s.
Basket Three Implementation of the Helsinki Accords Soviet law and the Helsinki monitors
Author | : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
ISBN | : UOM:39015040596382 |
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Implementation of the Helsinki Accords Soviet law and the Helsinki monitors
Author | : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044061174389 |
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Death and the Maiden
Author | : Gerald Elias |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781429972987 |
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As the New Magini String Quartet prepares for a performance of Schubert's masterpiece, "Death and the Maiden," which it hopes will resuscitate its faltering career, someone starts picking off members of the string quartet a la Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Dogged by internal dissension and by a potentially devastating lawsuit from its fired second violinist, the famed New Magini String Quartet is on the brink of professional and personal collapse. The quartet pins its hopes on a multi-media Carnegie Hall performance of Franz Schubert's masterpiece, "Death and the Maiden," to resurrect its faltering fortunes. But as the fateful downbeat approaches, a la Agatha Christie, one by one the quartet's musicians mysteriously vanish, including second violinist, Yumi Shinagawa, former student of renowned blind pedagogue and amateur sleuth, Daniel Jacobus.It is left up to the begrudging Jacobus, with his old friend, Nathaniel Williams, and a new member of the detective team, Trotsky the bulldog, to unravel the deadly puzzle. As usual, it ends up more than Jacobus bargained for.
American Foreign Policy Current Documents
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 986 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : OSU:32435054490032 |
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