Soviet dissidents who challenged the Kremlin

Welcome to the History Extra podcast. Fascinating historical conversations. From the makers of BBC history magazine. In the years following Stalin's death in nineteen fifty three, a new phenomenon emerged within the Soviet Union. So called dissidents and

Preferring to think of themselves as rights defenders, These individuals advocated a form of civil disobedience. I demand that the state abide by its own constitution and and the basic rights and freedoms that it promised on paper. Historian Benjamin Nathans explores this extraordinary movement in his book to the success of our hopeless cause and

And Danny Bird spoke to him to find out more. Benjamin's book is nominated for this year's Kundal History Prize. If you want to find out more about the prize and the other nominated books, then head to kundalprize.com. What first drew you to the world of the dissident movement within the Soviet Union? The question that really animated me was

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