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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Tetradi Samizdata
Author: Dissident for Life
Author: Koenraad De WolfPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 080286743X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher. In the 1970s Ogorodnikov performed a feat without precedent in the Soviet Union: he organized thousands of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christians in an underground group called the Christian Seminar. When the KGB gave him the option to leave the Soviet Union rather than face the Gulag, he firmly declined because he wanted to change "his" Russia from the inside out. His willingness to sacrifice himself and be imprisoned meant leaving behind his wife and newborn child. Ogorodnikov spent nine years in the Gulag, barely surviving the horrors he encountered there. Despite KGB harassment and persecution after his release, he refused to compromise his convictions and went on to found the first free school in the Soviet Union, the first soup kitchen, and the first private shelter for orphans, among other accomplishments. Today this man continues to carry on his struggle against government detainments and atrocities, often alone. Readers will be amazed and inspired by Koenraad De Wolf's authoritative account of Ogorodnikov's life and work.
Soviet Samizdat
Author: Ann KomaromiPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501763601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena of the late Soviet era, as an uncensored system for making and sharing texts. Based on extensive research of the underground journals, bulletins, art folios and other periodicals produced in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, Ann Komaromi analyzes the role of samizdat in fostering new forms of imagined community among Soviet citizens. Dissidence has been dismissed as an elite phenomenon or as insignificant because it had little demonstrable impact on the Soviet regime. Komaromi challenges these views and demonstrates that the kind of imagination about self and community made possible by samizdat could be a powerful social force. She explains why participants in samizdat culture so often sought to divide "political" from "cultural" samizdat. Her study provides a controversial umbrella definition for all forms of samizdat in terms of truth-telling, arguing that the act is experienced as transformative by Soviet authors and readers. This argument will challenge scholars in the field to respond to contentions that go against the grain of both anthropological and postmodern accounts. Komaromi's combination of literary analysis, historical research, and sociological theory makes sense of the phenomenon of samizdat for readers today. Soviet Samizdat shows that samizdat was not simply a tool of opposition to a defunct regime. Instead, samizdat fostered informal communities of knowledge that foreshadowed a similar phenomenon of alternative perspectives challenging the authority of institutions around the world today.
Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in the Soviet Union
Author: S. P. De BoerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789024725380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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New Serial Titles
Author: Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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New Serial Titles, Classed Subject Arrangement
Author: Translations and Translating
Author: Hugh M. OlmstedPublisher: Binghamton : Center for Translation and Intercultural Communication, Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Binghamton
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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The USSR and East Central and Southeastern Europe
Author: Janina W. HoskinsPublisher:
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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