To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans
Published 2024 · 224,400 words · about 18 hours at an average pace
How hard is To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement to read?
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement scores 60 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 62 out of 100
- Soviet legal and political vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Clear sentences over 800 pages.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Concrete biography carrying an argument about legalism as resistance.
- Information density: 80 out of 100
- Very dense — decades of archival material.
How To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement is regarded
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement holds a literary regard score of 50 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.