Za vashu i nashu svobodu. Dissidentskoe dvizhenie v Rossii - Ves'e S,

What is dissidence and who are dissidents? These terms are on everyone's lips, but it is not so easy to define them. No one would dispute that people like Andrei Sakharov or Vladimir Bukovsky, Sergey Kovalev or Natalia Gorbanevskaya are real dissidents, but what do they have in common with writers like Aleksandr Sinoviev, who remained a member of the party almost to the very departure of the country itself, with some of the Russian, Baltic or Georgian nationalists, with Jews who defended their right to live in Israel, with Orthodox and Baptists protesting against the state's interference in the affairs of the church, with the defenders rights of disabled people, women, workers - with all those who in different cases can also be considered dissidents? The struggle of dissidents had many directions in many spheres of life. In this book we are talking only about Russian dissidence, because it was in Russia it was born, here formed its principles, common to dissidents throughout the USSR and, more broadly, Eastern Europe.