First, before we turn our attention to Stalin, to Soviet-era dissidence and to debates about Dmitri Shostakovich's memoirs, listen.
Even after 1968, when tiny pockets of dissidence began to form in Eastern Europe, America was not the ideal to which the dissidents aspired; and although the United States gave financial aid to groups like Solidarity, in Poland, it played, Judt says, "a remarkably small" role in the revolutions of 1989.
The review of education must be based on current ideas as to professional competence, as well as a healthy approach to dissidence through innovative and creative thought processes.
Born into a family already shamed and marginalised after his "rightist" father was sentenced to 22 years of "reform through labour", Dai Wei starts early on the path to dissidence.
But more often than not, the decisions seem arbitrary, amounting to dissidence on the consumer level — something that Susan Sontag and other cultural critics complained about in the 1990s.
The church's official website, Mormon.org, is a pretty exceptional example of persuasive use of social media; and on the wider web a "Bloggernacle" flourishes, with conversations running the gamut from orthodoxy to dissidence.
For centuries, Marseille's mixed population and its inclination to political dissidence had made the city seem both foreign and marginal to French life and culture.
This, along with the regime's arming of Alawite villages and reports that Sunni prisoners are being mockingly told to declare Bashar Assad their deity, has stirred sectarian feelings; some 10,000 Syrians suspected of dissidence are now said to be behind bars.
Not everything he wrote can be reduced to encoded dissidence against the Soviet system, but in a performance as authoritative as this, the autobiographical preoccupations were hard to deny.
As the war dragged on, government measures to suppress dissidence grew oppressive.
