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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

Book by Benjamin Nathans · 2 quotes · Apathy, Authoritarianism, Democracy

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“The West’s adversarial political system, in which all manner of decisions were made by majority rule, was little more than a refined version of civil war, replacing one form of coercion (fighting) with another (voting).”

Democracy Voting Political Action Organizing Social Capital

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“The political apathy that KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastnyi feared was spreading across Soviet society in the 1960s was now treated as an asset by his successor, Vladimir Putin.”

Apathy Authoritarianism

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