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URL:https://europapunktbremen.de/events/benjamin-nathans-to-the-success-of
 -our-hopeless-cause-the-many-lives-of-the-soviet-dissident-movement/
SUMMARY:Benjamin Nathans: "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause." The Many 
 Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement. Book Talk with Maike Lehmann
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in the 1960s\, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly conf
 ronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. De
 manding that the Kremlin obey its own laws\, an improbable band of Soviet 
 citizens held unauthorized public gatherings\, petitioned in support of ar
 rested intellectuals\, and circulated banned samizdat texts. Soviet author
 ities arrested dissidents\, subjected them to bogus trials and vicious pre
 ss campaigns\, sentenced them to psychiatric hospitals and labor camps\, s
 ent them into exile—and transformed them into martyred heroes. Against a
 ll odds\, the dissident movement undermined the Soviet system and unexpect
 edly hastened its collapse. Taking its title from a toast made at dissiden
 t gatherings\, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause is a definitive histor
 y of a remarkable group of people who helped change the twentieth century.
 \n\nAn extraordinary account of the Soviet dissident movement\, Nathan's b
 ook also shows how dissidents spearheaded the struggle to break free of th
 e USSR’s totalitarian past\, a struggle that continues in Putin’s Russ
 ia—and that is deeply entangled with European society today.
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CATEGORIES:Europawoche 2025
LOCATION:Universität Bemen - IW3\, Am Biologischen Garten 2  (Gebäude IW3
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