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Refuseniks and Rights Defenders: Jews and the Soviet Dissident Movement

Date & Time

Monday, October 20, 2025, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Category

Arts & Culture

Location

Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick

Refuseniks and Rights Defenders: Jews and the Soviet Dissident Movement

Professor Benjamin Nathans (UPenn) will discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning new book "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement." Nathans will explore the ideas, people, and politics that animated 
resistance to the twentieth century’s longest-lived experiment in totalitarian rule. Advance registration required on the Bildner Center's website.