UID:
edocfu_9959228998302883
Format:
1 online resource (272 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-31797-2
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1-280-22405-3
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9786610224050
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0-203-41285-0
Series Statement:
East European studies ; 17
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-64968-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-33320-2
Language:
English
