Meredith L. Roman is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Brockport, USA. She is the author of Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 (2012).

In The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements, Meredith L. Roman finds tremendous commonalities in the Black Panthers and dissidents’ rhetoric, ideals and experiences. The result is one of the more provocative and thoughtful books I have read in years.

• Introduction1. Liberation from a Soviet and American Spiritual Death2. Counter-Surveillance and Decriminalization: The Law, Publicity, and Aid Programs3. Reporting Truth over Lies: The Chronicle of Current Events and The Black Panther Community News Service4. Traitors and Patriots: Criminalization and Valorisation in the Soviet and U.S. Press5. Counterintelligence and the Hunted: Incarceration, Assassination, and BetrayalBibliographyIndex

Meredith L. Roman is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Brockport, USA. She is the author of Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 (2012).

In The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements, Meredith L. Roman finds tremendous commonalities in the Black Panthers and dissidents’ rhetoric, ideals and experiences. The result is one of the more provocative and thoughtful books I have read in years.

• Introduction1. Liberation from a Soviet and American Spiritual Death2. Counter-Surveillance and Decriminalization: The Law, Publicity, and Aid Programs3. Reporting Truth over Lies: The Chronicle of Current Events and The Black Panther Community News Service4. Traitors and Patriots: Criminalization and Valorisation in the Soviet and U.S. Press5. Counterintelligence and the Hunted: Incarceration, Assassination, and BetrayalBibliographyIndex

Meredith L. Roman is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Brockport, USA. She is the author of Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 (2012).

In The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements, Meredith L. Roman finds tremendous commonalities in the Black Panthers and dissidents’ rhetoric, ideals and experiences. The result is one of the more provocative and thoughtful books I have read in years.

• Introduction1. Liberation from a Soviet and American Spiritual Death2. Counter-Surveillance and Decriminalization: The Law, Publicity, and Aid Programs3. Reporting Truth over Lies: The Chronicle of Current Events and The Black Panther Community News Service4. Traitors and Patriots: Criminalization and Valorisation in the Soviet and U.S. Press5. Counterintelligence and the Hunted: Incarceration, Assassination, and BetrayalBibliographyIndex