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DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Nathans' new book\, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cau
 se: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement\, tells the story of di
 ssent in the USSR from Stalin's death to the collapse of communism.  It exp
 lores the idea and practice of rights and the rule of law in the setting of
  “mature socialism.”  Rather than treat Soviet dissidents as avatars of Wes
 ternliberalism\, or take their invocation of rights and legal norms as natu
 ral\, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause investigates how\, as products t
 hemselves of the Soviet order\, dissidents arrived at a conception of law a
 nd human personality so at odds with official norms. Understanding this pro
 cess - how orthodoxies contain the seeds of their own heresies\, and how di
 ssidents promoted the containment of Soviet power from within - promises to
  illuminate the broader problem of how citizens of authoritarian societies 
 conceive and act on options for political engagement.\n\nBenjamin Nathans t
 eaches and writes about Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union\, modern Europ
 ean Jewish history\, and the history of human rights. He edited A Research 
 Guide to Materials on the History of Russian Jewry (19th and Early 20th Cen
 turies) in Selected Archives of the Former Soviet Union [in Russian] (Mosco
 w\, 1994) and is author of Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter With Late 
 Imperial Russia (Berkeley\, 2002)\, which won the Koret Prize in Jewish His
 tory\, the Vucinich Prize in Russian\, Eurasian and East European Studies\,
  the Lincoln Prize in Russian History and was a finalist for the National J
 ewish Book Award in History. Beyond the Pale has been translated into Russi
 an (2007) and Hebrew (2013). Nathans has published articles on Habermas and
  the public sphere in eighteenth-century France\, Russian-Jewish historiogr
 aphy\, Soviet dissident memoirs\, and many other topics. He is a regular co
 ntributor to the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement
  and an occasional commentator on current Russian affairs. From 2008 to 201
 2 he worked as a consultant for Ralph Appelbaum Associates\, a leading muse
 um design firm\, chairing an international committee of scholars that helpe
 d design the content for the Museum of Jewish History in Moscow\, which ope
 ned in November 2012.\n\nRSVP Here
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LOCATION:Encina Commons\, room 123
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SUMMARY:How to Conduct Yourself: Dissident Advice Manuals in Late Soviet So
 ciety
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URL:https://events.stanford.edu/event/to-the-success-of-our-hopeless-cause-
 the-many-lives-of-the-soviet-dissident-movement
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