Fighting Authoritarianism in History: The Case of Soviet Union Dissidents
Dr. Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania, Alan Kors Professor of History (Pulitzer Prize Winner 2025)
Threats to protesters. Clamp-downs on academic speech. Throwing critics in prison. It happened before, and so did a movement opposing it. Beginning in the 1960s, Soviet dissidents organized an improbable movement that involved everything from public demonstrations to the circulation of underground texts.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Benjamin Nathans, a leading authority on the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union, joins us to discuss his new book and its implications for the present.
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