... Soviet dissidents samizdat Andrei Sakharov Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Jewish emigration from the USSR ...

.... The chapter describes the origins of the human rights movement, the rise of unofficial samizdat literature, the creation of the underground dissident journal The Chronicle of Current Events , the Jewish emigration movement, Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and KGB chief Yuriy Andropov’s efforts...

... that contemporary Chinese authors are able to produce. Yan Lianke compares the situation in China to the situation in the former Soviet Union, and wonders why China has not been able to produce dissident writers like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn or Boris Pasternak, much less figures like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, or Chekhov...