Professor and author Benjamin Nathans joins Cornell University for a talk about his book, which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction this year. An extraordinary account of the Soviet dissident movement, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement shows how dissidents spearheaded the struggle to break free of the USSR鈥檚 totalitarian past, a struggle that continues in Putin鈥檚 Russia鈥攁nd that illuminates other struggles between hopelessness and perseverance today.