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Alexander "Sasha" Ivanovich Shatravka (Александр Иванович Шатравка; born 6 October 1950) is a Russian-born former Soviet dissident and peace activist who is known for his memoir Escape from Paradise about escaping from the Soviet Union.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 15 relations: Ashgabat, Chronicle of Current Events, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Glasnost, Gulag, Nuclear disarmament, Peace movement, Perestroika, Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, Political prisoner, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Routledge, Soviet dissidents, Soviet Union, Yale University Press.

  2. Russian memoirists
  3. Russian non-fiction writers
  4. Russian political writers
  5. Soviet non-fiction writers
  6. Soviet psychiatric abuse whistleblowers

Ashgabat

Ashgabat (Turkmen: Aşgabat) is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan.

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Chronicle of Current Events

A Chronicle of Current Events (Khronika tekushchikh sobytiy) was one of the longest running samizdat periodicals of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.

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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, is an independent U.S. government agency created by Congress in 1975 to monitor and encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and other Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) commitments.

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Glasnost

Glasnost (гласность) is a concept relating to openness and transparency.

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Gulag

The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. Alexander Shatravka and Gulag are political repression in the Soviet Union.

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Nuclear disarmament

Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons.

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Peace movement

A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation.

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Perestroika

Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.

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Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric problem. Alexander Shatravka and political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union are political repression in the Soviet Union.

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Political prisoner

A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Soviet dissidents

--> Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them. Alexander Shatravka and Soviet dissidents are political repression in the Soviet Union.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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See also

Russian memoirists

Russian non-fiction writers

Russian political writers

Soviet non-fiction writers

Soviet psychiatric abuse whistleblowers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shatravka