dissident movement
Organized political opposition
A dissident movement is an organized effort by people who oppose official government policy or established authority.
The term typically describes groups challenging authoritarian regimes: The dissident movement in the Soviet Union included writers, scientists, and human rights activists.
Dissidents risk persecution for their opposition, distinguishing them from ordinary political opponents in open societies.
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- underground pressRadical countercultural publishing network
- rebellionDefiance of established power
activist · samizdat · resistance · oppression · exile · solidarity · human rights · free speech · subversive · revolutionary · defector · manifesto · censorship · persecution · political prisoner · uprising · banned · smuggled
- Hungarian HistorySaint Stephen, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Magyars, Hungarian flag, Hungarian Revolution
- movementsmove, step, turn, shift, slide
- Cold War EndBerlin Wall fall, Soviet collapse, German reunification, Gorbachev, perestroika
- Cold War EscapeBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, Checkpoint Charlie, escape attempts, defection
- CzechoslovakiaPrague, Bratislava, Bohemia, Slovakia, Moravia
- East GermanyStasi, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, East Germany
dissident movementruling party
Faction currently holding power
state apparatus · party faithful · power structure · ruling class · collaborators
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