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campaigns against the wars or militarization of the non-communist, Western countries, but failed to condemn similar actions originating from the USSR or its allies. For example, in 1962 during a World Peace Council conference in
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deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe was "an aggressive policy", the Soviet Union had the right to deploy such weapons defensively. Some even saw the Committee as a front for the
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The Struggle Against the Bomb: Volume Two, Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970
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Independent peace movements in the USSR which operated without permission of the Committee were seen as suspect.
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Realism, utopia, and the mushroom cloud: four activist intellectuals and their strategies for peace, 1945-1989
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in 1991. In 1992, remnants of the Soviet Peace Committee were reorganized into the
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The Soviet Peace Committee was founded in August 1949. It was a member of the
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The troubled birth of Russian democracy: parties, personalities, and programs
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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
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It gained some independence during the liberalization of the Soviet Union (
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Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War
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Civic and political organizations based in the Soviet Union
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The Soviet Peace Committee ceased to exist with the
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Russian
peace movements
Soviet Union
the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991
World Peace Council
anti-war
Moscow
European Nuclear Disarmament
NATO
KGB
perestroika
death penalty
liberalism
human rights
totalitarianism
Katyn Massacre
fall of the Soviet Union
Federation for Peace and Conciliation
Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov
Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fyodorov
Yury Zhukov
Genrikh Borovik
List of anti-war organizations






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