Putinism's Defeated Opposition

Abstract

Abstract:The shocking scope and brutality of Russia's invasion of Ukraine have prompted legions of journalists, pundits, and academics to try to explain the conditions, rationale, and possible outcomes of Vladimir Putin's war, often by drawing connections back to the Soviet and imperial periods. In this cluttered and uneven field of interpretation and polemic, Russian leftist activist, art critic, and historian Ilya Budraitskis's new collection of essays, Dissidents Among Dissidents, comes as a much-needed intervention