🔴 #Samizdat as a technology of free speech.

@benjaminnathans.bsky.social on decentralization, ownership, and why samizdat was unlike today’s internet.

If you’re in Washington DC on Saturday Jan. 31, consider joining me and Joseph Torigian for a lively conversation about the Soviet dissident movement and its Chinese counterparts.

@benjaminnathans.bsky.social latest book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause has been #shortlisted for The 2025 Cundill History Prize. Listen to his interview on @historyextra.bsky.social with Danny Bird here: buff.ly/FgwuOEL

The Enigma of George Kennan | Benjamin Nathans Frank Costigliola's biography of George Kennan explores the contrast between the supreme confidence of his policy prescriptions and the perpetual turbulence of his inner life.

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МАРК ПОМАР у РАШКИНА: Опыт Советских диссидентов YouTube video by Rashkin Report

МАРК ПОМАР у РАШКИНА: Опыт Советских диссидентов
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A Mindset for the Trump Era With authoritarianism rising everywhere, don’t forget about what the dissidents have to teach us.

This one benefited enormously from conversations with @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @benjaminnathans.bsky.social, and I highly recommend both their recent books, Snyder's "On Freedom" and Nathans's "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause."

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