Worlds of Dissent - Charter 77, Plastic People of Universe, Czech Culture Under

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Bolton is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Klappentext "Worlds of Dissent" analyzes the myths of Czech resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces these heroic victory narratives with a picture of the struggle against state repression as dissidents themselves understood and lived it. Their diaries, letters, and essays convey the texture of dissent in a closed society. Zusammenfassung "Worlds of Dissent" analyzes the myths of Czech resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians! and replaces these heroic victory narratives with a picture of the struggle against state repression as dissidents themselves understood and lived it. Their diaries! letters! and essays convey the texture of dissent in a closed society.

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• Authors: Jonathan Bolton, Bolton Jonathan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780674416932
• ISBN: 978-0-674-41693-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political Ideologies, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political ideologies and movements, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General