Author: Boris AntonovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
"Prisoners of Conscience" in the USSR and Their Patrons
Author: Boris AntonovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Prisoners of Conscience in the USSR
Author: Amnesty InternationalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780909382339
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Prisoners of Conscience in the USSR
Author: Amnesty InternationalPrisoners of Conscience in the USSR
Author: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
Author: Benjamin NathansPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691117039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
"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, eventually forming the socialist world's first civil and human rights movement? To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause-a title borrowed from the dissidents' favorite toast, pronounced with glasses raised in countless apartments across the USSR's eleven time-zones-tells the story of the people and the ideas that made the movement. Weaving together KGB interrogation and surveillance records with diaries, letters, and an extraordinary number of memoirs, Nathans explains how a movement grew from a chain reaction of individual acts of resistance. He explains its origins in the counterintuitive idea of "civil obedience"-the conviction that human rights could be achieved if only the Soviet regime followed its own constitution and that citizens had to act as if the constitution was the law of the land in the absence of compliance within the governing class. Nathans constructs in detail the lives and struggles of numerous dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov, Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, and Alexander Volpin. He describes the many show trials of activists, the extra-legal tactics of the KGB's Fifth Directorate, the international networks of activism and journalism that fueled the movement at key moments, and the gradual incorporation of dissident ideals into mainstream Soviet political culture. This book offers a definitive history of the group of dissenters who worked from within the Soviet system against the post-Stalinist regime, bringing to life the stories of drama, conflict, tangled relationships, personal sacrifice, and extraordinary devotion to a seemingly impossible cause"--
Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War
Author: Stéphanie RoulinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137388803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
How was anti-communism organised in the West? This book covers the agents, aims, and arguments of various transnational anti-communist activists during the Cold War. Existing narratives often place the United States – and especially the CIA – at the centre of anti-communist activity. The book instead opens up new fields of research transnationally.
Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in the Soviet Union
Author: S. P. De BoerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789024725380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Political Prisoners and Trials
Author: James R. BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Arranged by country, this text inlcudes articles from journals, pamphlets, organizational reports, and books on political prisoners and their trials.
The Puzzle of the Soviet Church
Author: Kent Richmond HillPublisher: Multnomah Books
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Guidebook for Prudent and effective look at the church in Russia. Complex history and current realities of believers in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union on the Brink
Author: Kent Richmond HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description