Legacy of Soviet Dissent - Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 programme of perestroika, and shaped the course of democratisation in post-Soviet Russia. Some of these ideas - such the dissidents' preoccupation with glasnost and legality, and their critique of revolutionary violence - became part of the agenda of Russia's democratic movement. But this book also demonstrates that dissidents played a crucial role in the rise of the new Russian radical nationalism. Both the friends and foes of Russian democracy have a dissident lineage. Zusammenfassung This important book argues that the dissident movement between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s had profound repercussions for Gorbachev's reforms and for the post-Soviet order. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Children of Terror 2. The Invention of Glasnost 3. The Rights-Defenders 4. The Fabrication of Russophobia 5. The Politics of Russophobia

Product details

• Authors: Robert Horvath, Horvath Robert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780415333207
• ISBN: 978-0-415-33320-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Human Rights, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Human rights, civil rights, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Russia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General