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Verfasst von: | Martin, Barbara [VerfasserIn] |
Titel: | Roy and Zhores Medvedev |
Titelzusatz: | loyal dissent in the Soviet Union |
Verf.angabe: | Barbara Martin |
Verlagsort: | Boston |
Verlag: | Academic Studies Press |
Jahr: | 2023 |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 233 Seiten) |
Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Modern Biographies |
Ang. zum Inhalt: | 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 |
ISBN: | 9798887191836 |
| 9798887191843 |
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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| DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887191836 |
Schlagwörter: | (p)Medvedev, Roj Aleksandrovič / (p)Medvedev, Žores Aleksandrovič / (g)Sowjetunion / (s)Dissident |
Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
Dokumenttyp: | Biografie |
Sprache: | eng |
Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Martin, Barbara, 1986 - : Roy and Zhores Medvedev. - Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2023. - viii, 233 Seiten |
Sach-SW: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists |
K10plus-PPN: | 1876318864 |
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Roy and Zhores Medvedev / Martin, Barbara [VerfasserIn]; 2023 (Online-Ressource)