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political dissident

DEFINITIONS OF: political dissident

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n a dissenter from political orthodoxy

Examples:
Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918)
Type of:
contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector, protester
a person who dissents from some established policy
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