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Aug 29, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Benjamin Nathans |Princeton Press |Helen Andrews

Books When Soviet Dissidents Disappoint A new history of the Soviet dissident movement tries to make heroes of an underwhelming lot. To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans, Princeton University Press, 816 pages, August 2024Professor Benjamin Nathans thinks Soviet-era dissidents don’t get enough respect in modern Russia.

Mar 22, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Timothy Hampton |Princeton Press |Lee Trepanier

Today we are bombarded with calls to be happy, optimistic, and the best version of ourselves, whether in popular self-help books or academic studies of human flourishing. One of the threads that connects these works together is the theme of cheerfulness, the state of being noticeably happy and optimistic. But what is cheerfulness and where does it come from? Timothy Hampton, the Aldo Scagione and Marie M.