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The Dissidents - A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990 (Hardcover)
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The Dissidents - A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990 (Hardcover)
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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.
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