LEADER 04405nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910814886503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-41693-7 010 $a0-674-06483-6 010 $a0-674-06937-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674064836 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082530 035 $a(OCoLC)794004266 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10568015 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000659647 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11401647 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000659647 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10696628 035 $a(PQKB)11618105 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301072 035 $a(DE-B1597)178158 035 $a(OCoLC)840444039 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674064836 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301072 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568015 035 $a(dli)HEB32473 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000565 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082530 100 $a20110802d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWorlds of dissent $eCharter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech culture under communism /$fJonathan Bolton 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 1 $a0-674-06438-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Impasse of Dissent --$t2. The Stages of Demobilization --$t3. The Shadow World --$t4. Legends of the Underground --$t5. Everything Changed with the Charter --$t6. The Public of the Powerless --$t7. Dreams of a Dissident --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aWorlds 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 1970's, 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 to understand the texture of dissent in a closed society. 606 $aDissenters$zCzechoslovakia$xHistory 606 $aDissenters$zEurope, Central$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDissenters$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zCzechoslovakia$xHistory 606 $aCommunism$xSocial aspects$zCzechoslovakia$xHistory 606 $aPolitics and culture$zCzechoslovakia$xHistory 607 $aCzechoslovakia$xPolitics and government$y1968-1989 607 $aCzechoslovakia$xIntellectual life$y1945-1992 615 0$aDissenters$xHistory. 615 0$aDissenters$xHistory 615 0$aDissenters$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunism$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitics and culture$xHistory. 676 $a943.704/3 700 $aBolton$b Jonathan$f1968-$01015546 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814886503321 996 $aWorlds of dissent$92371933 997 $aUNINA