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Verfasst von:	Martin, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Roy and Zhores Medvedev
Titelzusatz:	Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union
Institutionen:	Swiss National Science Foundation
Verf.angabe:	Barbara Martin
Verlagsort:	Boston, MA
Verlag:	Academic Studies Press
E-Jahr:	2023
Jahr:	[2023]
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (244 p.)
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Modern Biographies
Schrift/Sprache:	In English
Ang. zum Inhalt:	Frontmatter
	Contents
	List of Illustrations
	List of Abbreviations
	Note on Archives
	Introduction
	CHAPTER 1 A Youth in Stalin's Shadow
	CHAPTER 2 A Crusade in Soviet Biology
	CHAPTER 3 Stalin Is No More
	CHAPTER 4 Making Sense of Stalinism
	CHAPTER 5 Rebellious Intelligentsia
	CHAPTER 6 A Question of Madness
	CHAPTER 7 New Threats
	CHAPTER 8 Into Exile
	CHAPTER 9 Carving a "Third Way" in the Cold War
	CHAPTER 10 Solzhenitsyn: The End of a Friendship
	CHAPTER 11 Finding and Losing Political Allies
	CHAPTER 12 Under the KGB's Watch
	CHAPTER 13 Andropov's Protection
	CHAPTER 14 The Nuclear Threat
	CHAPTER 15 The Rise and Fall of Gorbachev's Socialist Democracy
	CHAPTER 16 The End of the Soviet Order
	CHAPTER 17 Praising the Strong Rulers
	Conclusion
	Index
ISBN:	9798887191836
Abstract:	"Roy and Zhores Medvedev, two identical twins with a unique fate, not only lived through a whole century of history, from Stalin to Putin, they wrote and made history. Their research on Stalinism, the first to come out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1970s, turned them into famous dissidents overnight, but their criticism of the regime always remained loyal to Soviet power. The story of their lives provides a snapshot into the history of Soviet dissent, from psychiatric hospitalization to forced exile, and from KGB interrogations to collaboration with Western news correspondents. Yet their trajectory was also marred by controversy with fellow dissidents, and in the post-Soviet era active support of authoritarian rulers, including Vladimir Putin"--
DOI:	doi:10.1515/9798887191836
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Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists
K10plus-PPN:	1876318864
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