Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture Under Communism - Brossura

Bolton, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 0674416937 ISBN 13: 9780674416932

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

Worlds of Dissent" would be valuable simply because it meaningfully gathers in one place so many familiar and less familiar voices, themes, accounts, and analyses of episodes and aspects of social and cultural life in 1970s Czechoslovakia Readers unfamiliar with the personalities or events discussed are given plenty of help, while Bolton writes with painstaking clarity throughout. As contemporary Bohemia s public life drifts ever further away from that apparently dreamed and lived by the 1970s dissidents, at least its past may be in safe hands. --Rajendra A. Chitnis"Central Europe" (05/01/2013)"

L'autore:

Jonathan Bolton is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0674416937
• ISBN 13: 9780674416932
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 349