To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

by Benjamin Nathans

Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Benjamin Nathans tells the story of the Soviet citizens who, from the 1960s, demanded that the state obey its own laws. They signed petitions, attended trials and passed banned texts from hand to hand, and each crackdown only brought new dissidents forward.