Samizdat and an independent society in Central and Eastern Europe
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Bibliographic Information
Samizdat and an independent society in Central and Eastern Europe
(St. Antony's/Macmillan series)
Macmillan, in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1989
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliography (p.239-283) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study of the "independent life of society" (dissent) in Central and Eastern Europe examines the many forms of independent activity at work today. Included are autonomous family life, religion and nationalism, the second economy, "samizdat" communications, the second culture, including the alternative youth culture, parallel politics and social deviance. The author provides a comprehensive systematic analysis of independent historical and political writings in Czechoslovakia, Charter 77 and other forms of autonomous action in that country. He also makes a thorough survey of "samizdat" and other dissident activities in the USSR and the other countries of Central Europe, and assesses the validity of the concepts of an "independent" or "parallel" society which are widely used to interpret these phenomena. The author has published several books on Eastern Europe including "Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Samizdat in the USSR, China and Eastern Europe: Samizdat - a return to the pre-Gutenberg era?
- independent communications in Eastern Europe. Part 2 Independent tendencies in Czechoslovakia: dissent and Charter 77
- other independent currents
- the muse of history - independent historiography reborn
- parallel politics. Part 3 The independent life of society in Eastern Europe: a second society
- a parallel polity and society
- towards an independent society?.
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