Peter Reddaway  (UK)

Professor Peter Reddaway (1939-2024) taught political science at the London School of Economics & Political Science and then at George Washington University, specializing in Soviet/Russian government. He was head of the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center, and his books and numerous articles have been central to bringing Soviet dissent to the attention of the West.

Reddaway spent decades studying the Soviet Union and got to know many dissidents and details of their work, publicizing their writings in the West and helping some of them to leave the USSR and settle abroad.  In his memoirs and other books he captured the human costs of the repression that marked the Soviet state and put the dissidents’ work in the context of the power struggles in the Kremlin.