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Soviet dissidents were citizens of the Soviet Union who disagreed with the policies and actions of their government and actively protested against these actions through either violent or non-violent means. Through such protests, Soviet dissidents incurred harassment, persecution, imprisonment or death by the KGB, or other Soviet government agencies.
From the mid-1970s, the term was first used in the Western propaganda [1] and subsequently, with derision, by the Soviet media. Human rights activists in the USSR then adopted this term.
While dissent with Soviet policies and persecution for this dissent existed since the times of the October Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet power, the term is most commonly applied to the dissidents of the post-Stalin era.
See also
- Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn
- Andrei Sakharov
- Chronicle of Current Events (samizdat)
- Committee on Human Rights in the USSR
- Gulag
- Moscow Helsinki Group
- Samizdat
- Yelena Bonner
References
- ^ Доклад: Диссиденты by Michel Aucouturier
Further reading
- Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev, Piero Ostellino (1980) On Soviet Dissent, ISBN 0231048122
- Robert Horvath (2005) The Legacy of Soviet Dissent: Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia, ISBN 0415333202
- Dissenters, Soviet Union on Google Books
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