The dissidents : a memoir of working with the resistance in Russia, 1960-1990 /: a memoir of working with the resistance in Russia, 1960-1990. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Reddaway.
• Authors: Reddaway, Peter
• Contents: 1958 to 1962 : first steps in Russian and the Soviet Union -- Graduate studies : a double miracle -- September 1963 to May 1964 : from immersion to expulsion -- Writing about Soviet writers and the emerging human rights movement -- The other '68 : upheaval in the Soviet Bloc and the chronicle of current events -- Two giants of dissent -- Confronting the naysayers -- 1970-1977 : grappling with the political abuse of psychiatry -- Dissent among ethnic minorities -- Religious dissent -- America-based support for dissent, 1968-1986 -- Publishing samizdat abroa -- Dissent and reform under Gorbachev -- Developments in psychiatric abuse, 1987-1989 -- Gorbachev doomed, Yeltsin's rise, Gorbachev departs.
• Publisher Details: Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 323.092/247; Dissenters -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Human rights -- Soviet Union; Civil rights -- Soviet Union; Dissidents -- URSS -- Biographies; Droits de l'homme (Droit international) -- URSS; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Intelligence & Espionage; Politics and government; Human rights; Friendship; Dissenters; Civil rights; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991; URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1953-1985; URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1985-1991; Soviet Union; Autobiographies; Biographies; Autobiographies; Biographies; Friends and associates
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780815737742; 0815737742
• Related ISBNs: 9780815737735
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
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