For your and our freedom. Dissident movement in Russia

What is dissident and who are such dissidents? These terms at all are heard, but the definition is not so easy to give them. No one will challenge that people like Andrei Sakharov or Vladimir Bukovsky, Sergey Kovalev or Natalia Gorbanevskaya, - real dissidents, but that they have common with writers like Alexander Zinoviev, who remained a member of the party almost to the very departure from the country, With some of the Russians, the Baltic or Georgian nationalists, with the Jews who defended their right to live in Israel, with Orthodox and Baptists who protested against the state of the state in the affairs of the Church, with the defenders of the rights of persons with disabilities, women, workers - with all those who are in different cases Can you also count on dissidents? The struggle of dissidents had many directions in many areas of life. In this book, we are talking only about Russian dissident, since it was in Russia that it originates, its principles common for dissidents throughout the USSR and, wider, Eastern Europe