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

by Jonathan Bolton

Book Overview

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."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674416937
• ISBN13: 9780674416932
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"