Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them...

have considered themselves dissidents, such as the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. In totalitarian countries, dissidents are often incarcerated or executed...

in cases of dissidents. Sluggish schizophrenia as one of the new diagnostic categories was created to facilitate the stifling of dissidents and was a root...

offence was widely used against Soviet dissidents. The new Criminal Codes of the 1920s introduced the offence of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda as one...

during the "Khrushchev Thaw", followed by increased persecution of Soviet dissidents during the Brezhnev era, and it did not cease to exist until late...

UkrSSR. In 1977, his mother was expelled from the Soviet Union for working as a lawyer for Soviet dissidents. In February 2015, Simes met with Russian president...

Lana Peters,[citation needed] was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she...

the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned repression of Soviet dissidents and other intellectuals who dissented from Moscow's policies and he...

2008) was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison...

rejection of any 'underground' and violent struggle. Like other dissidents in the post-Stalin Soviet Union, human rights activists were subjected to a broad range...