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Informationen zum Autor Peter Reddaway is a professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. He taught at the London School of Economics and directed the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. He is author of numerous books on Soviet and Russian affairs, including Russia's Domestic Security Wars: Putin's Use of Divide and Rule Against His Hardline Allies (2018); Russia's Political Hospitals: The Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union , with Sidney Bloch (1977); and Uncensored Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union (1972). Klappentext In the last decades before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, courageous dissidents within the country worked tirelessly to expose the tyranny and weakness of the Soviet state. Their work, first published in underground texts known as samizdat and then often republished in the West, alerted fellow citizens and the rest of the world to the human rights abuses and economic failures of the communist regime. It is not an exaggeration to say that this work helped set the stage for the collapse of the regime. Today these men and women are largely forgotten, both in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. The Dissidents brings them and their work to life for contemporary readers. Peter Reddaway spent decades studying the Soviet Union and came to know these dissidents and their work, publicizing their writings in the West and helping some of them to escape the Soviet Union and settle abroad. In this memoir he tells their stories and also captures the human costs of the repression that marked the Soviet state: the forced labor camps, the internal exile, the censorship, the use and abuse of psychiatry to label those who found fault with the Soviet system mentally ill. Reddaway's book also places the work of the dissidents within the context of the secretive politics inside the Kremlin, where a tiny elite competed for power-even as the Soviet system was crumbling around them. Zusammenfassung It has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union - enough time for the role that the courageous dissidents ultimately contributed to the communist system's collapse to have been largely forgotten. This book brings to life! for contemporary readers! the often underground work of the men and women who opposed the regime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction 1. First Steps 2. Graduate Studies: A Double Miracle 3. Immersion: Daily Life in Khrushchev's Russia 4. Expulsion: Cultural Trends, Literary Friends, and the Sharp Edges of the Soviet State 5. The Emergence of Dissent: Bringing Dissidents and the Emerging Human Rights Movement to the World's Attention 6. The Other '68: Upheaval in the Soviet Bloc and the Chronicle of Current Events 7. Two Early Giants of Soviet Dissent: Marchenko and Grigorenko 8. Confronting the Naysayers in the West 9. "The Mental State of Such People Is Not Normal": Exposing the Political Abuse of Psychiatry 10. Dignity under Persecution: Dissent among the Ethnic Minorities 11. Religious Persecution, Religious Dissent 12. Fighting on Old and New Fronts: 1968 to 1983 13. Publishing Samizdat in the West 14. Dissent and Reform under Gorbachev: Uncertain Terrain 15. Upending Manufactured Schizophrenia 16. The End: RIP USSR, 1917 to 1991 Some Conclusions Works by Peter Reddaway Cited in This Volume, by Year Notes Subject Index Names Index ...
