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nouna person who dissents from some established policy
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adjectivedisagreeing, especially with a majority
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adjectivecharacterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
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Definition that contains dissident
- solzhenitsyn Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918)
- andrei sakharov Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989)
- aleksandr solzhenitsyn Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918)
- death squad a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval)
- underground press a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature
- alexander isayevich solzhenitsyn Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918)
- sakharov Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989)
- andrei dimitrievich sakharov Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989)
- samizdat a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature
- aleksandr i. solzhenitsyn Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918)