About the book: 2017 / Under this cover, a variety of voices are united, at one time - from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s - belonging to the social movement of dissidents in the USSR , which received the name of dissidence. These are the voices of different generations, different political beliefs, different destinies. Soviet dissidence was never a monolithic political movement - it was always a diverse choir, united not by political, but by ethical principles. This book gives him the opportunity to be heard.