Volume 32, Number 15 · October 10, 1985
Waiting for Gorbachev
By Peter B. Reddaway
Soviet Dissent: Contemporary Movements for National, Religious, and Human Rights
by Ludmilla Alexeyeva, translated by Carol Pearce, by John Glad
Wesleyan University Press, 521 pp., $35.00
Behind the Lines: The Private War Against Soviet Censorship
by Donald R. Shanor
St. Martin's, 179 pp., $13.95
It now seems possible that within a year or so the vast, lumbering Soviet Union may start to change its course. A turning point to compare with the major shifts of 1921, of 1929 to 1934, 1953 to 1956, and 1964 to 1966 may be impending. Will the change, if it comes, be in the direction of reform, as present hints suggest, or of reaction? And what might the consequences be for the currently beleaguered dissidents, of whom Ludmilla Alexeyeva has now given us the first comprehensive history?
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