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Subject(s)

• Political culture—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Dissenters—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Glasnost [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Politics and government—1985-1991 [Browse]
• Russia (Federation)—Politics and government—1991-. [Browse]

Series

• BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; 17. [More in this series]
• Russian and East European studies. [More in this series]
• East European studies ; 17

Summary note

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

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-287) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Children of Terror; 2 'Honest and Total Glasnost'; 3 The Rights-Defenders; 4 The Invention of Russophobia; 5 The Politics of Russophobia; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-31797-2
• 1-280-22405-3
• 9786610224050
• 0-203-41285-0

OCLC

437059861

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