Description: About this Item The item is a book Hardback The Author Name is Benjamin Nathans The Title is To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause : The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement Condition New Other Comments Pages Count - 816. Category - History Product Description - A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSRand still provides a model of opposition in Putins RussiaBeginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the worlds 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 exileand 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 Nathanss vivid narrative tells the dramatic story of the men and women who became dissidentsfrom 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 USSRs totalitarian past, a struggle that continues in Putins Russiaand that illuminates other struggles between hopelessness and perseverance today. We Use Stock Images Because we have over 2 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. For example: some of our stock images include stickers, labels, price tags, hyper stickers, obi's, promotional messages, signatures and or writing which may not be available in the actual item. When possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details are provided automatically from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong. Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions. The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. If you are looking for a specific edition or version please contact us to verify what we are selling. Gift IdeasThis is a great Christmas gift idea. Hours of ServiceWe have many warehouses, some of the warehouses process orders seven days a week, but the Administration Support Staff are located at a head office location, outside of the warehouses, and typically work only Monday to Friday. Location ID 9000z iHaveit SKU ID 167345532
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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
