Roy and Zhores Medvedev : : Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union.

• Superior document: Modern Biographies Series
• Author: Martin, Barbara.
• Place / Publishing House: Brighton : : Academic Studies Press,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Modern Biographies Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 pages)

"Roy and Zhores Medvedev, two identical twins with a unique fate, not only lived through a whole century of history, from Stalin to Putin, they wrote and made history. Their research on Stalinism, the first to come out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1970s, turned them into famous dissidents overnight, but their criticism of the regime always remained loyal to Soviet power. The story of their lives provides a snapshot into the history of Soviet dissent, from psychiatric hospitalization to forced exile, and from KGB interrogations to collaboration with Western news correspondents. Yet their trajectory was also marred by controversy with fellow dissidents, and in the post-Soviet era active support of authoritarian rulers, including Vladimir Putin"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

A Youth in Stalin's Shadow -- A Crusade in Soviet Biology -- Stalin Is No More -- Making Sense of Stalinism -- Rebellious Intelligentsia -- A Question of Madness -- New Threats -- Into Exile -- Carving a "Third Way" in the Cold War -- Solzhenitsyn: The End of a Friendship -- Finding and Losing Political Allies -- Under the KGB's Watch -- Andropov's Protection -- The Nuclear Threat -- The Rise and Fall of Gorbachev's Socialist Democracy -- The End of the Soviet Order -- Praising the Strong Rulers.