How Alexei Navalny Changed History

He will not have the chance to lead Russia. But his movement will outlast him.

Alexei Navalny at a rally in 2011. (Mitya Aleshkovsky, Creative Commons 2.0)

In the early 1980s, a number of repressive regimes held dissidents in prison. Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia was confined t…