To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement all anyone wants to do

all anyone wants to do is make it out alive

is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive

" At once wildly comic

only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement all anyone wants to doWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia and beyond "A book about a past time that is very much a book for our time. . . . A story from which we all stand to learn as we face a new wave of authoritarianism." Los Angeles Review of Books Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was