Worlds of Dissent
Jonathan Bolton Worlds of Dissent Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists...
Post-Dissidents: Structuring and Transforming A Social World
Post-Dissidents: Structuring and Transforming A Social World Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Nussdorfer Strasse 64, 4th floor, 1090 Wien 15.05.2012 – 15:00 The Czech underground movement peaked around Ivan Martin Jirous’s (Magor) project in the 1970s. Throughout the country, artists and intellectuals progressively came to identify with his intently apolitical movement. For instance, the...
