About the book: 2014 / Who are the Soviet dissidents? Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn - who are they? The author of the book studied the entire history of Russian dissidents from the 1956-1990s. A. Shirokorad showed all groups of dissidents, starting from major figures - Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn - to the “kitchen” dissidence of the Soviet intelligentsia. Was Koktebel a sex island for Soviet dissidents? Who was allowed to criticize the authorities and who was not? Was Nikita Khrushchev himself a dissident? The author of the book “Dissidents 1956–1990” answers all these questions. A. Shirokorad.