Modern Russian Dissent 2/1/07 12:30 PM

Year 2006 was the deadlies four journalists, more than 200 journalists died
mysteriouslt
soviet system spread widespread confomirty across its entire population
•the media was made to serve the state
censorship
•socialist realism
•magazines, news papers
•television
•dissent=self criticism
•criicism was never directed at communism itself, the criticism was
how the person could not meet their own burden
•most people who did actually dissent were sent to concentration
camps
odarkness in noon
omental institutions
everyday dissidence through very forms
•sattend official meetings but then not pay attention or knit and
•read official papers but skip the political stuff
• completely withdraw from public life, by focusing on family and
friends, never leave home
obuild a small group of people who all thought in the same way
you did and talk freely about how you believe
Soviet dissent after stalin
•Dissenters stop dying under Khruschev
oUnofficial groups emerge as well as a there emerges a
movement away frm socialist realism in the arts film and
literature
oreligion itself becomes a form of dissent
•dissent targets:
opolitical democracy
onationality rights
osocialist equality
ohuman rights
oideological purificiation
ocultural modernization
ocomestic an international policies
•But why stick your neck out?
obecause the urge to start the revolution
•Samizdat
oself publish you’d write something and then pass it from friend
to friend
Gorbechev and the dissent under him
 •Floodgates are opened by glasnost for dissent
•History is re-written
•sokaroff ,solzhanitsin
•everything opens
•a lot of people were rehabilitated
December 1991 mass media law passed
•Gorbechev but was outdated within two weeks
oCompletely uncontrolled media
•Enjoyed a freedom like never before
•dissenters do not often have a lot of support in Russia
oAnna Polikovskia
oVyacheslav Schekochikin
oAlexander Livitneko
KAdyrov
•Killed as a birthday present to putin
Aleander Litvinekoo
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