Soviet dissidents

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Soviet dissidents were citizens of the Soviet Union (1917 — 1991) who disagreed with the policies and actions of their nation, and at the same time actively protested against these measures through non-violent means. Through such protests, Soviet dissidents would incur harassment, persecution and ultimate imprisonment by the KGB, NKVD, GRU, or some other Soviet state policing arm.

Below is a partial list:

Contents 1 Noted dissidents 1.1 Scientists 1.2 Authors and artists 1.3 Journalists, human rights and political activists 2 See also

[edit] Noted dissidents

[edit] Scientists

• Pavel Litvinov
• Zhores Medvedev
• Revolt Pimenov
• Andrei Sakharov
• Natan Sharansky
• Aleksandr Zinovyev

[edit] Authors and artists

• Vladimir Bukovsky
• Yuri Daniel aka "Nikolai Arzhak"
• Boris Kagarlitsky
• Roy Medvedev
• Boris Pasternak
• Andrei Sinyavsky aka "Abram Tertz"
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[edit] Journalists, human rights and political activists

• Yelena Bonner
• Sergei Kovalev
• Volodya Slepak
• Mikhail Trepashkin
• Merab Kostava
• Zviad Gamsakhurdia

[edit] See also

• Gulag