British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Did Civil Resistance End the Soviet Empire?

Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank and Dr Janusz Onyszkiewicz explore the contribution of civil resistance movements to the remarkable process of peaceful change that ended the Cold War and the Soviet Union itself and how these movements relate to other factors of power in bringing about historical change – not just in the past, but also today.

This meeting took place on 27 October 2009, and was convened to mark the publication by Oxford University Press of Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present, edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash.