The influential dissident Vladimir Bukovskii played a formative role in the creation of the Soviet human rights movement and the exposure of the abuse of psychiatry in the USSR. After his exile to the West in 1976, he became involved in a wider anti-Communist network, and became a forceful commentator on Cold War issues. There is no scholarly work on Bukovskii, and this article seeks to fill this gap by offering an overview of Bukovskii's struggle with Soviet Communism, in particular by examining his moral and political ideas, and his anti-Communist activities. It shows him to have had a libertarian political philosophy, a strong belief in the importance of strategy, a campaigning tendency and ability to use the media, and a forceful personality.
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