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...