To the success of our hopeless cause : the many lives of the Soviet dissident movement

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    • Nathans, Benjamin

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To the success of our hopeless cause : the many lives of the Soviet dissident movement

Benjamin Nathans

Princeton University Press, [2024]

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Many lives of the Soviet dissident movement

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary:"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 RussiaBeginning 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. Benj

Summary:"In the 1960s, the Soviet Union found itself unexpectedly challenged from within by a cohort of dissidents who eventually achieved global fame. Their struggle for the rule of law and human rights made them instant heroes in the West, where they appeared as democracy's surrogate soldiers behind the iron curtain. But, as historian Benjamin Nathans argues, theirs was a homegrown phenomenon; activists built the anti-totalitarian movement on fundamental concepts from within the communist pantheon. And their goal was not to topple the Soviet state (a feat they could scarcely imagine) but to exercise a kind of containment of Soviet power from within. Still, the movement was in many ways improbable: a half-century after Lenin launched the world's first socialist society, and a generation after Stalin liquidated millions of "enemies of the people," there was not supposed to be any internal opposition left. What kind of people became dissidents, and how were they able to invent new techniques of social activism

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収録内容

  • 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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