Dissidents

[ TOC: all blog posts ] Two Russian dissidents, armed only with words and the force of public opinion, faced authoritarian regimes. Both were imprisoned for speaking out. One was exiled, the other killed. I recently read their memoirs: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Oak and the Calf Alexei Navalny: Patriot: A Memoir Navalny makes the point that the Soviet regime, which persecuted Solzhenitsyn, was…