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Gal Beckerman

Gal Beckerman is the senior editor for books at The Atlantic and the author of When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone (2010) and The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas (2022). Formerly, he was an editor and writer at The New York Times Book Review.

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Samizdat and the Moral Collapse of the USSR

For all its sacrifices, Natalya Gorbanevskaya’s life is emblematic of what a network of poets, thinkers, and activists achieved by daring to defy a totalitarian state.

February 13, 2022