DISSIDENT

A 'dissident', broadly defined, is a person who actively opposes an established opinion, policy, or structure. The term can be used to refer to a number of types of dissidents, including political, social, and militant dissidents.

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Soviet dissidents

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Soviet dissidents

Term 'dissident' was used in the Soviet Union during the period of 1965-1985, including Brezhnev stagnation, for citizens who criticized
the dictature of the Communist party. The people who used to write, tear and who distributed non-censored non-conformist litetature samizdat
were criticized in the newspapers. It was common to criticize an author in newspapers without publishing any of his works. Then, many people
accepted the term 'dissident' with respect to themselves
^[1].
This radically changed the meaning of the term: instead of criminal, who opposes the society, the term got meaning of
non-conformist, who insists on the officially published laws, including the international agreements, signed by the Soviet government
^[2]
[3]
[4]. Important part of activity of dissidents was informing the society
(Both inside the Soviet Union and in foreign countries) about violation of laws and human rights;
see Chronicle of Current Events (samizdat) and Moscow Helsinki Group.
See the special article about Soviet dissidents.

References

1.
Chronicle of Current Events (samizdat) , http://www.memo.ru/history/diss/ (in Russian)
2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
3.
Proclamation of Tehran, Final Act of the International Conference on Human Rights, Teheran, 22 April to 13 May 1968, U.N. Doc. A/CONF. 32/41 at 3 (1968), http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/l2ptichr.htm
4.
CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE FINAL ACT. Helsinki, 1 aug. 1975 года. http://www.osce.org/documents/html/pdftohtml/4044_en.pdf.html

See also

★ List of Chinese dissidents

★ List of Singaporean dissidents

★ Dissent

External links

★ Free dictionary, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dissident

★ American Journal of crytical writung, http://www.theamericandissident.org/

★ Dissident Movement. Russian History Encyclopedia, http://www.answers.com/topic/dissident-movement

★ Paul Belien. Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship. The Brussel Journal, 2006-02-27, http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865