The accusations, most of them difficult to confirm independently and some exaggerated, were nonetheless accepted as articles of faith in dissident circles.

A feared figure in dissident circles, he was considered extraordinarily close to power.

In the early 1980s, Šešelj began to associate more with individuals from dissident intellectual circles in Belgrade, some of whom had Serbian nationalist political leanings.

In the 1960s they were close to dissident circles in Moscow.

Many of the lay deputies belonged to the dissident circles, associated with Mulkum Khan and Kirmani, who felt only contempt for the ulema.

When the K.G.B. moves in, she withdraws to dissident circles.

While eventually all these things in fact happened, at the time this program was seen as quite radical and unrealistic, even in dissident circles.

"I think they were simply afraid that if Genrikh remained free, he was the sort of man who could be the center of a new dissident circle."

In 1968 he was labeled a dissident because his book on tea was popular in dissident circles.

Due to this censorship, critic Tudorel Urian says that in the 1980s his name was much better known in dissident circles than his work.