The dissidents : a memoir of working with the resistance in Russia, 1960-1990 /

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"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 rea...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reddaway, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Reddaway, Peter > Friends and associates.
Reddaway, Peter
1953-1991
Dissenters > Soviet Union > Biography.
Human rights > Soviet Union.
Civil rights > Soviet Union.
Dissidents > URSS > Biographies.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > URSS.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Intelligence & Espionage.
Civil rights
Dissenters
Friendship
Human rights
Politics and government
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1953-1985.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1985-1991.
Soviet Union
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1958 to 1962 : first steps in Russian and the Soviet Union
  • Graduate studies : a double miracle
  • September 1963 to May 1964 : from immersion to expulsion
  • Writing about Soviet writers and the emerging human rights movement
  • The other '68 : upheaval in the Soviet Bloc and the chronicle of current events
  • Two giants of dissent
  • Confronting the naysayers
  • 1970-1977 : grappling with the political abuse of psychiatry
  • Dissent among ethnic minorities
  • Religious dissent
  • America-based support for dissent, 1968-1986
  • Publishing samizdat abroa
  • Dissent and reform under Gorbachev
  • Developments in psychiatric abuse, 1987-1989
  • Gorbachev doomed, Yeltsin's rise, Gorbachev departs

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