Soviet dissent and Russia's transition to democracy
By: Robert Horvath.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ;; 17
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon; Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Political culture -- Soviet Union.; Dissenters -- Soviet Union.; Glasnost.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.; Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Children of terror; title: The great alibi; title: Solzhenitsyn and the dissident interpretation of Soviet history; title: The court of society; title: 'Honest and total glasnost'; title: The leninist sources of Gorbachev's glasnost; title: The demand for glasnost; title: The weapon of glasnost; title: The practice of glasnost; title: Official glasnost versus dissident glasnost; title: The rights-defenders; title: The pravozashchitniki; title: Constitutional illiberalism; title: Deputy Sakharov; title: Democratic Russia; title: Sergei Kovalyov and 'the true principles of constitutionalism'; title: The invention of russophobia; title: Shafarevich the rights-defender; title: Cosmopolitanism, metanoia, russophobia; title: The construction of rusofobiya [sic]; title: The politics of russophobia; title: Russophobia and perestroika; title: The 'children of Sharik'; title: The ideologue of the red-brown alliance.