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

by B Nathans

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 Russia

Beginning 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691117039
• ISBN13: 9780691117034
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"