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My father cannot truly be classified as a dissident even though it is through him and Andrey Siniavsky that the dissident movement began in the USSR. First and foremost, he was a clandestine man of letters.
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The general meeting asks you voluntarily and by way of labor discipline to give up your dining room. Nobody has a dining room in Moscow.
“Not even Isadora Duncan”, the woman cried in a ringing voice.
[…] “Uhum,” said Philip Philippovich in a strange voice. “And where am I to take my meals?”
“In the bedroom”, the four answered in chorus.
—Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
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© 2011 Paola Messana
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Messana, P. (2011). Dissidence. In: Soviet Communal Living. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118102_22
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