CfP: 1956, Resistance and Cultural Opposition in East Central Europe
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CfP: 1956, Resistance and Cultural Opposition in East Central Europe

1956, Resistance and Cultural Opposition in East Central Europe The Hungarian Historical Review Deadline for the submission of abstracts: January 15, 2016. Since 1989, former socialist countries have been in the process of constructing and negotiating their relationships with their recent past, which includes their stories of resistance, revolts and cultural opposition. Opposition is typically understood in a narrow sense as referring...

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Worlds of Dissent
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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...

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