Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that …
My intention was not to deal with the problem of truth, but with the problem of the truth-teller, or of truth-telling as an activity:.…who is able to tell the truth, about what, with what consequences, and with what relations to power.
—MICHEL FOUCAULT, FEARLESS SPEECH
— To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause by Benjamin Nathans (Page 1)