In this Long View conversation, Maria Lipman and Michael Kimmage will interview Benjamin Nathans, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and author of To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement, a recipient of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The conversation will explore the post-World War II history of the Soviet Union and the ways in which dissident activity arose from and conflicted with the evolution of Soviet culture and society.