Volume 21, Number 20 · December 12, 1974
The Resistance in Russia
By Peter B. Reddaway
Fat Sasha and the Urban Guerilla: Protest and Conformism in the Soviet Union
by David Bonavia
Atheneum, 193 pp., $6.50
Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition
edited by George Saunders, translated by the editor and Marilyn Vogt
Monad, 464 pp., $15.00
Ten Years After Ivan Denisovich
by Zhores A. Medvedev, translated by Hilary Sternberg
Knopf, 202 pp., $6.95
The Last Exodus
by Leonard Schroeter
Universe, 432 pp., $10.95
I Am a Jew: Essays on Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union B'nai Brith
edited by Aleksander Voronel, edited by Viktor Yakhot
Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry and the Anti-Defamation League of, 77 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Jewishness Rediscovered: Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union B'nai Brith
edited by Aleksander Voronel, edited by Viktor Yakhot
Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry and the Anti-Defamation League of, 72 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Boomerang: The Works of Valentyn Moroz
edited by Yaroslav Bihun, introduction by Paul L. Gersper
Smoloskyp (PO Box 6066, Patterson Station, Baltimore, Maryland 20231), 272 pp., $3.25 (paper)
Report from the Beria Reserve: The Protest Writings of Valentyn Moroz Chicago, Illinois 60680)
edited and translated by John Kolasky
Peter Martin Associates (Toronto) and Cataract Press (PO Box 4875,, 162 pp., $2.95
Church, State and Opposition in the USSR Communism
by Gerhard Simon, translated by Kathleen Matchett. in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Religion and
University of California Press, 248 pp., $12.00
A decade ago in the Soviet Union a series of relentless, sometimes desperate struggles got under way. On one side was the powerful apparatus of the regime, long in power, ideologically ossified beyond regeneration, instinctively and persistently reactionary in suppressing almost all the aspirations of its opponents. On the other was a steadily increasing number of dissenting groups—cultural, intellectual, humanitarian, political, nationalistic, religious—which realized they would have to fight, and for a long time, to attain even a few of their aims. No longer, under Brezhnev and Kosygin, did the hope of the Khrushchev period persist that concessions might be made voluntarily 'from above' and that peaceful coexistence, or even dialogue, with the regime might become possible. Now it would be a struggle of attrition which might last for decades and of which the ultimate outcome was unpredictable. Today the prospect remains unchanged.
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