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To the Success of our Hopeless Cause
The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Narrated by: Rich Miller
Author: Benjamin Nathans
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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 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.
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ISBN: 9798892744584
Available: 26th November 2024
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Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Duration: 03:15.00
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