The legacy of Soviet dissent
Subtitle: dissidents, democratization and radical nationalism in Russia
By: Robert Horvath.
Series: BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies -- 17
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
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: value: Children of terror; value: The great alibi; value: The dissident interpretation of Soviet history; value: The court of society; value: 'Honest and total glasnost'; value: The leninist sources of Gorbachev's glasnost; value: The demand for glasnost; value: The weapon of glasnost; value: The practice of glasnost; value: Official glasnost versus dissident glasnost; value: The rights-defenders; value: The pravozashchitniki; value: Constitutional illiberalism; value: Deputy Sakharov; value: Democratic Russia; value: Sergei Kovalyov and 'the true principles of constitutionalism'; value: The invention of russophobia; value: Shafarevich the rights-defender; value: Cosmopolitanism, metanoia, russophobia; value: The construction of rusofobiya [sic]; value: The politics of russophobia; value: Russophobia and perestroika; value: The 'children of Sharik'; value: The ideologue of the red-brown alliance.