To the success of our hopeless cause

Titel: To the success of our hopeless cause : the many lives of the Soviet dissident movement / Benjamin Nathans
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Veröffentlicht: Princeton; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2024]
Umfang: xiv, 797 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 25 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Nathans, Benjamin. To the success of our hopeless cause. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024
ISBN: 9780691117034 ; 0691117039 ; 9780691255576
  • List of Illustrations
  • xi
  • Prologue: To Live like Free People
  • 1
  • Part I
  • Stumbling Blocks
  • 21
  • 1
  • Don Quixote in the Land of Soviets
  • 23
  • 2
  • Involuntary Protagonists
  • 45
  • 3
  • Transparency Meeting
  • 75
  • 4
  • The Court is in Session
  • 99
  • Part II
  • Movement of a New Type
  • 127
  • 5
  • Rights Talk
  • 129
  • 6
  • Chain Reaction
  • 147
  • 7
  • The Dissident Repertoire
  • 195
  • 8
  • From Circle to Square
  • 238
  • Part III
  • In Search of Form
  • 269
  • 9
  • Leave the Politics to Us
  • 271
  • 10
  • Will the Dissident Movement Survive?
  • 294
  • 11
  • Recrimination and Reassessment
  • 316
  • 12
  • Taking the Initiative
  • 336
  • 13
  • The Inner Sanctum of Volpinism
  • 373
  • Part IV
  • Disturbers of the Peace
  • 389
  • 14
  • The Fifth Directorate
  • 391
  • 15
  • Fallen Idols
  • 432
  • 16
  • How to Conduct Yourself
  • 452
  • 17
  • Allies, Bystanders, Adversaries
  • 487
  • 18
  • Rights-Defenders among the Nations
  • 510
  • 19
  • Dissident Fictions
  • 526
  • Part V
  • From the Other Shore
  • 545
  • 20
  • The Kindness of Strangers
  • 547
  • 21
  • Adoptees at the Gate
  • 572
  • 22
  • Final Act
  • 593
  • Epilogue: Breaking the Fourth Wall
  • 615
  • Chronology of the Soviet Dissident Movement
  • 641
  • Acknowledgments
  • 651
  • Notes
  • 655
  • Bibliography
  • 739
  • Illustration Credits
  • 771
  • Index
  • 775