This book is the first to document the history of the Captive Nations movement and the passage of the US law designating Captive Nations Week, a recognition of the peoples and nations living under repressive regimes, particularly the USSR. Arguing that Russian statecraft was heavily shaped by traditional imperialist ideology, Dobriansky provides a potent first-person account detailing the resistance to Moscow's imperial domination over non-Russian peoples in the Soviet era and beyond.