"In memoirs by participants in the Soviet dissident movement, an obscure name usually appears near the beginning of the story."
-- First sentence of Benjamin Nathans, *To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement* (2024)
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Started this over the weekend and man oh man, from a US perspective, it feels SO timely. It's tickling all the right brain cells right now.
#FirstSentences #BenjaminNathans #Bookstodon
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