prepared to see their lives destroyed and those dear to them hurt. When I look at my situation and my family's situation and that of my country, I realize that things are getting steadily worse." Fellow dissident and one of the founders of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alexeyeva wrote: According to Soviet dissident Victor Davydoff, totalitarian system has no mechanisms that could change the behavior of the ruling group from within. Any attempts to change this are immediately suppressed through repression. Dissidents appealed to international human rights organizations, foreign governments, and there was a result. See also A Chronicle of Current Events Anarchism in Russia Anti-Leninism Anti-Stalinist left Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania Dissident movement in the People's Republic of Poland Dubravlag Human rights movement in the Soviet Union Left communism Perm-36 Parallels, Events, People (36 parts) – 2013 documentary by Natella Boltyanskaya Refusenik – 2007 documentary by Laura Bialis Samizdat They Chose Freedom (4 parts) – 2005 documentary by Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. References Further reading Outsiders' works Reprinted in Insiders' works The work in Russian was also published in: The work in English was published in: Audiovisual material Soviet democracy movements Writing circles Soviet opposition groups Persecution of dissidents in the Soviet Union Underground culture Era of Stagnation