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	To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement 4.25 avg rating — 212 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Europe's East to the Middle East: Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages by Kenneth B Moss (Editor), Benjamin Nathans (Editor), Taro Tsurumi (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil society and empire in fin-de-siècle Russia: The case of Jews and the legal profession 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marcus Moseley. Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography.: An article from: Biography 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“When we study how law functions in a given society, what should draw our keenest attention is the tension not between law and reality but between law in theory and law in practice.”
― Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

tags: autocracy, law

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“The West’s adversarial political system, in which all manner of decisions were made by majority rule, was little more than a refined version of civil war, replacing one form of coercion (fighting) with another (voting).”
― Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

tags: democracy, organizing, political-action, social-capital, voting

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“The notion that successful reform can emerge exclusively from within the ruling elite belongs among Russia’s most enduring and self-perpetuating myths, shared by figures as diverse as Gorbachev and Putin. Reforms initiated from outside the elite, so the argument goes, are doomed to failure, mass violence, or both. Never mind that such reforms have often been stymied by the elite itself, fearful of losing its monopoly of power, or that numerous reforms initiated from above have failed miserably.”
― Benjamin Nathans

tags: authoritarianism, reform, russia, soviet-union

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