• Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them.
  • In general terms the dissident movement in the Soviet Union was primarily the struggle of the intelligentsia against the regime.
  • Was it dangerous to be a dissident? The authorities did not officially recognize that "dissenters" existed in the "idyllic" Soviet state, and it believed that only...
  • Soviet authorities attempted to repress these currents and activities by propaganda that discredited dissidents and their claims, confiscation of dissident...
  • Communist Dissidents in Early Soviet Russia. Five documents translated and introduced by Simon Pirani.
  • A writer and dissident who was arrested for his opposition to the Soviet regime and for publishing works critical of the government.
  • Dissidents in the Soviet Union and Russia were critics of the regimes in the Soviet Union and 21st-century Russia. Intellectuals and artists who criticized the Soviet...
  • ...Kara-Murza, tells the story of the dissident movement in the USSR from its emergence in the 1950s until the collapse of the Soviet dictatorship in 1991.
  • That defined not only 1960s debates such as those about the scientific-technical revolution and “socialism with a human face”, but even 1970s Soviet dissidents'...
  • The history of Soviet dissent has traditionally been studied through the deformative lens of Soviet repressive policies, portraying dissidents both as heroes and...