Russian resistance

By Jeff Sparrow
Updated April 23 2014 - 8:08pm, first published April 12 2014 - 3:00am
Iconoclasts: Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.
Iconoclasts: Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.

These two new accounts of resistance to the Putin regime bring to mind the Joycean phrase about history as a nightmare from which we struggle to awake. Both books chronicle dissidents fighting for a future in a present still dominated by the brutal past.

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