1st Edition
The Legacy of Soviet Dissent Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia
By Robert Horvath
Copyright 2005
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight. This book restores the dissidents to their rightful place in Russian history. Using a vast array of samizdat and published sources, it shows how ideas formulated in the dissident milieu clashed with the original... Read more
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Biography
Robert Horvath is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. He teaches courses on East European history and the history of human rights.
