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Dissidents in Communist Central Europe: Human Rights and the Emergence of New Transnational Actors: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements

Autor Kacper Szulecki
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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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030226152
ISBN-10: 3030226158
Pagini: 242
Ilustrații: XXIV, 242 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1 Introduction.- 2 Who are the Dissidents?.- 3 Marxist neophytes and democratic heretics.- 4 Dissent Gains Names and Faces.- 5 Between Prague and Helsinki: setting the transnational stage for dissidence.- 6 The birth of the dissident figure, 1976-77.- 7 Molding the dissident figure.- 8 The looping effect of the dissident figure: resistance and performance.- 9 Generalization of the dissident figure.- 10 Conclusion: can dissidentism explain post-dissident politics?.



Recenzii

“Dissidents in Communist Central Europe is a welcome addition to the field of dissent studies and one to be recommended to all scholars with an interest in the history and practice of dissidence.” (James P. Brown, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 73 (3), March 22, 2021)
“Kacper Szulecki’s book is an extremely inspiring and thought-provoking read. It can be considered one of the most important books ever published on various forms of opposition to communism. Moreover, it also provides important impulses for understanding political conflicts in the modern, interconnected world and the movements currently fighting against dictatorships.” (Jan Olaszek, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, December 8, 2020)
“One of the meritsof the book is that it acknowledges the absence of women in the historiography of dissident movements in East Central Europe. As Szulecki observes, this was due not only to the persistent machismo within the opposition circles, but also to the fashioning of the dissident figure, which was mainly constructed by the Western media, public, and scholars.” (Una Blagojević, Hungarian Historical Review, Vol. 9 (2), 2020)
“The book is an inspiring and engaging read. It gives much needed analytical perspective on dissidents. It also prompts us to re-think conventional historical narratives on postwar Central Europe that we have often learned from dissidents.” (Aspen Review, Issue 2, 2020)

Notă biografică

Kacper Szulecki is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway. He was previously a Dahrendorf Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin, Germany), a visiting researcher at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Florence, Italy) and a researcher at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Cultural Foundations of Integration’, University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany).

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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. 

Caracteristici

Explores the origin and meanings of the term ‘dissident’ in relation to the history of the emergence and development of international human rights Offers a new theoretical model for conceptualizing the dissident within a transnational framework Draws on primary sources in the local languages and first-hand accounts from former Soviet dissidents in Central Europe