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The Editorial team at New Perspectives welcomes you to the first issue of 2022. It contains two parts, an invited forum of essays convened by one of our associate editors, Anatoly Reshetnikov, followed by four independently submitted research articles. Across this issue, we address the problematic of dissidence as it appears on several registers, from politics and international relations, to art and scholarship itself.

Dissidence as a concept appears to have fallen somewhat out of fashion in recent years, despite accelerating dynamics of protest, activism and new forms of political radicalism explored in our recent issues. In part, this is because it is so closely associated with one specific period, that of the late Cold War, and its specific geo-political and intellectual context. In convening this issue, we suggest, with Budraitskis (2022), that the concept of dissidence deserves to be reinvigorated. Today, forms of power and …