Table of Contents

Contents:

Introduction

1. First Steps

2. Graduate Studies: A Double Miracle

3. Immersion: Daily Life in Khrushchev's Russia

4. Expulsion: Cultural Trends, Literary Friends, and the Sharp Edges of the Soviet State

5. The Emergence of Dissent: Bringing Dissidents and the Emerging Human Rights Movement to the World's Attention

6. The Other '68: Upheaval in the Soviet Bloc and the Chronicle of Current Events

7. Two Early Giants of Soviet Dissent: Marchenko and Grigorenko

8. Confronting the Naysayers in the West

9. “The Mental State of Such People Is Not Normal": Exposing the Political Abuse of Psychiatry

10. Dignity under Persecution: Dissent among the Ethnic Minorities

11. Religious Persecution, Religious Dissent

12. Fighting on Old and New Fronts: 1968 to 1983

13. Publishing Samizdat in the West

14. Dissent and Reform under Gorbachev: Uncertain Terrain

15. Upending Manufactured Schizophrenia

16. The End: RIP USSR, 1917 to 1991

Some Conclusions

Works by Peter Reddaway Cited in This Volume, by Year

Notes

Subject Index

Names Index

About the Author

Peter Reddaway is a professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. He taught at the London School of Economics and directed the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. He is author of numerous books on Soviet and Russian affairs, including Russia's Domestic Security Wars: Putin's Use of Divide and Rule Against His Hardline Allies (2018); Russia's Political Hospitals: The Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union, with Sidney Bloch (1977); and Uncensored Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union (1972).

Reviews

“Few Westerners had the kind of access to the Soviet human rights movement that Peter Reddaway had, in real time across nearly a quarter-century. This unique memoir offers a powerful account of a scholar-activist who made his way to the better side of history and what he found there.”- Benjamin Nathans, associate professor of history, University of Pennsylvania

“Peter Reddaway is a unique moral voice for decency and justice. Through his research and humanitarian activity, he helped to dispel the illusions of an uninformed and often indifferent West about Soviet repression of dissent, the abuse of psychiatry, and its victims. A fascinating memoir and a must-read for those who think that disinformation is a recent invention.”- Thane Gustafson, professor of political science, Georgetown University