Unyielding Resolve

Captive Nations and the Path to Freedom

Lev E. Dobriansky, Pratik Chougule, Paula J. Dobriansky

• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9780817926564
• Subtopic: Geopolitics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book is the first to document the history of the Captive Nations movement and the passage of the US law designating Captive Nations Week, a recognition of the peoples and nations living under repressive regimes, particularly the USSR. Arguing that Russian statecraft was heavily shaped by traditional imperialist ideology, Dobriansky provides a potent first-person account detailing the resistance to Moscow's imperial domination over non-Russian peoples in the Soviet era and beyond.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Advance Praise for Unyielding Resolve
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Captive Nations, Then and Now
• 2. The First Plateau: Public Law 86-90—Stemming the Tide
• 3. Puncturing Moscow’s Central Nerve
• 4. A Second Plateau: The Reagan Revolution— US Strikes Back
• 5. Support for Freedom Fighters in the Soviet Empire
• 6. Non-Russian Revolutions
• 7. The Semantics of Liberation
• 8. Human Rights and the Faith Community
• 9. Captive Nations—Who’s Next?
• 10. The Novelist and the Poet
• 11. Countering Russian Propaganda: A Crucial American Public Diplomacy Mission
• 12. Beyond Containment
• 13. Cold War Victory and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
• 14. The Third Plateau: Remaining Captive Nations
• Epilogue
• Postscript
• Appendix A: Captive Nations Week— Public Law 86-90; 73 STAT. 212
• Appendix B: Captive Nations List 1980
• Photo Section
• Notes
• About the Author and Contributors
• Index