Human Rights And Political Dissent In Central Europe
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Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe
Author | : Jakub Tyszkiewicz |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2021-12-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781000479843 |
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This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination. It focuses in particular on - firstly - a consequent new impetus to bolster human rights in international politics, as Western democracies - especially the US - integrated human rights concerns into its foreign policy relations with Soviet Bloc countries and - secondly – how this Western embrace of human rights seemed to create new incentives for increased dissident activity in Central and Eastern Europe and from 1976 onward. Finally, the book reminds us of the significant role of the Helsinki Accords in developing democratic practices in Eastern European societies under Soviet domination in 1975-1989 and in creating the conditions for the peaceful transition to democratic government in the years that followed. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of the history of communism, post-Soviet, Russian, and central and East European politics, the history of human rights, and democratization.
Dissidents in Communist Central Europe
Author | : Kacper Szulecki |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783030226138 |
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This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989. It argues that our understanding of the transnational activist would not be what it is today without the input of Central European oppositionists and ties the term to the global emergence and evolution of human rights. The book examines how we define dissidents and explores the association of political resistance to authoritarian regimes, as well as the impact of domestic and international recognition of the dissident figure. Turning to literature to analyse the meaning and impact of the dissident label, the book also incorporates interviews and primary accounts from former activists. Combining a unique theoretical approach with new empirical material, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary history, politics and culture in Central Europe.
The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East Central Europe
Author | : Barbara J. Falk |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9639241393 |
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"In addition to the huge list of written sources from samizdat works to recent essays, Falk's sources include interviews with many personalities of those events as well as videos and films."--Jacket.
Dissent and Opposition in Communist Eastern Europe
Author | : Detlef Pollack,Jan Wielgohs |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015060610444 |
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This volume provides new material on the different developments of opposition groups and dissidence in various Communist countries in Eastern and Central Europe. It significantly contributes to and further develops sociological and historical insights into the development of protest and dissent within this region.
Dissent in Eastern Europe
Author | : Jane Leftwich Curry |
Publsiher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015008029632 |
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Loyalty Dissent and Betrayal
Author | : Leonidas Donskis |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789042017276 |
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East European Fault Lines
Author | : Janusz Bugajski,Maxine Pollack |
Publsiher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1989-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105081941259 |
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Worlds of Dissent
Author | : Jonathan Bolton |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2012-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674064836 |
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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 drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences--diverse, uncertain, nameless--have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia. Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Václav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West--including Ludvík Vaculík, whose 1980 diary The Czech Dream Book is a compelling portrait of dissident life. Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. Worlds of Dissent offers a rare opportunity tounderstand the texture of dissent in a closed society.