Benjamin Nathans

**Winner, Pulitzer Prize 2025****Winner, Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2025**A 'riveting history' (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia and beyond'A book about a past time that is very much a book for our time...A story from which we all stand to...

A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia. Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world's imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorised...