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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.
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Jimmy Carter helped dismantle Soviet Union with focus on human rights
The embargo also forced the Soviets to pay premium prices for grain from other countries ... emphasizing human rights, was a key instrument in dismantling the power of the Soviet Union.
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Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." He said Putin was "very insistent that this mistake should not be repeated. And he's doing exactly that." Leonid Brezhnev ...