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