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Benjamin Nathans To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: To the Success of Our Hopeless CauseCondition: NewSubtitle: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident MovementISBN-10: 0691117039EAN: 9780691117034ISBN: 9780691117034Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/13/2024Description: A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s RussiaBeginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings, petitioned in support of arrested intellectuals, and circulated banned samizdat texts. Soviet authorities arrested dissidents, subjected them to bogus trials and vicious press campaigns, sentenced them to psychiatric hospitals and labor camps, sent them into exile—and transformed them into martyred heroes. Against all odds, the dissident movement undermined the Soviet system and unexpectedly hastened its collapse. Taking its title from a toast made at dissident gatherings, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause is a definitive history of a remarkable group of people who helped change the twentieth century.Benjamin Nathans’s vivid narrative tells the dramatic story of the men and women who became dissidents—from Nobel laureates Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn to many others who are virtually unknown today. Drawing on diaries, memoirs, personal letters, interviews, and KGB interrogation records, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause reveals how dissidents decided to use Soviet law to contain the power of the Soviet state. This strategy, as one of them put it, was “simple to the point of genius: in an unfree country, they began to conduct themselves like free people.”An extraordinary account of the Soviet dissident movement, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause shows how dissidents spearheaded the struggle to break free of the USSR’s totalitarian past, a struggle that continues in Putin’s Russia—and that illuminates other struggles between hopelessness and perseverance today.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmAuthor: Benjamin NathansGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

Title: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

Subtitle: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

ISBN-10: 0691117039

EAN: 9780691117034

ISBN: 9780691117034

Release Date: 08/13/2024

Release Year: 2024

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Science Nature & Math

Number of Pages: 816 Pages

Publication Name: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause : the Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

Language: English

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication Year: 2024

Item Height: 2.1 in

Subject: Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / Eastern, Modern / 20th Century, Social History

Item Weight: 48.3 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 9.5 in

Author: Benjamin Nathans

Subject Area: History

Item Width: 6.5 in

Format: Hardcover

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