The dilemmas of dissidence in East-Central Europe : citizen intellectuals and philosopher kings /

Discusses one of the major currents leading to the fall of communism. Falk examines the intellectual dissident movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary from the late 1960s through to 1989. The author passionately argues that the intellectuals and dissident writers of the region not only contr...

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Author / Creator: Falk, Barbara J.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • A Note on Nomenclature
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Section 1.
  • Chapter 2. Poland: The Harbinger of Crisis and Collapse
  • Intellectual Opposition in Poland: 1956-1965
  • The Catholic Church in Poland
  • The Students' Protest: March, 1968
  • The Workers' Protest: Gdansk, 1970
  • The Events of June, 1976: Radom, Ursus, and Beyond
  • Komitet Obrony Robotnikow (KOR): The Workers' Defense Committee
  • The Alternative Civil Society?
  • Towarzystwo Kursow Naukowych (TKN): The Flying University
  • The Pope's Visit, 1979
  • Solidarity (Solidarnosc)
  • Intellectuals within Solidarity
  • Martial Law and its Aftermath
  • Solidarity Underground
  • Re-Legalization, the Roundtable Talks (RT), and Free Elections
  • Chapter 3. Czechoslovakia: From Interrupted to Velvet Revolution
  • Czechoslovak Stalinism and the Role of Intellectuals
  • The Economic Crisis of the 1960s
  • Proposals for Economic Reform
  • The Writers' Union and the Cultural Renaissance of the 1960s
  • The Student/Youth Movements and Strahov
  • The Prague Spring
  • The Action Program and Soviet Response
  • Independent Currents: The Untimely Rebirth of Civil Society
  • Cierna nad Tisou
  • Crisis: Soviet Mobilization and the Moscow Protocols
  • Normalization
  • The Underground Music Scene and the Trial of the PPU
  • The Helsinki Accords and Charter 77
  • Vybor na Obranu Nespravedlive Stihanych (VONS)
  • The "Underground University"
  • Samizdat Publishing and Distribution
  • Repression and Resistance in the Czech Lands and Slovakia in the 1980s
  • The Underground Church in Slovakia
  • The Tide Turns: "Just a Few Sentences"
  • The GDR Exodus and the Fall of the Wall
  • November 17 and the Birth of Civic Forum and Public against Violence
  • Havel na Hrad
  • The New Year's Address and the Consolidation of Democracy
  • Chapter 4. Post-1956 Hungary: Repression, Reform, and Roundtable Revolution
  • The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Lessons and Legacies
  • Kadarite Communism
  • The Politics of Economic Reform: The NEM
  • Socialist Redistribution and the Second Economy
  • Intellectuals: On the Road to Class Power?
  • The Budapest School
  • "Populist" vs. "Democratic" Dissent
  • Beszelo and Hungarian Samizdat
  • Toward an Alliance: The Bibo Festschrift and Monor
  • Lakitelek
  • Intra-party and Election Reform
  • The Rebirth of Civil Society
  • Ellenzeki Kerekasztal (EKA) and the "Pacted Transition"
  • The "Four Yeses" Referendum
  • June 16, 1989: The Reburial of Imre Nagy
  • Section 2.
  • Chapter 5. Intellectuals in Poland: The Tradition Continues
  • Leszek Kolakowski: A Source of Hope amidst Hopelessness
  • Adam Michnik's Alliance Strategy: The Church and the Left
  • "A New Evolutionism"
  • Non-violence as Theory and Practice
  • Kuron: A Bridge between Generations
  • Theorizing Civil Society: The Polish Case
  • Chapter 6. Opposition Intellectuals in Czechoslovakia
  • Vaclav Havel's Theatre of the Absurd
  • The Evolution of "Living in Truth": Its Meaning and Consequences
  • From Playwright to Dissident in Husak's Czechoslovakia
  • Theorizing Resistance: "The Power of the Powerless"
  • "Politics and Conscience" and the Destructive Capacities of Technology
  • Largo Desolato, Temptation, and the Vanek Plays
  • Letters to Olga: "Being" and the "Absolute"
  • The Decisive Influence of Jan Patocka
  • Vaclav Benda's "Parallel Polis"
  • The Collective Oeuvre of the Chartists
  • Theorizing Civil Society: The Czechoslovak Example
  • Chapter 7. The Democratic Opposition in Hungary
  • The Philosophical Legacy of Gyorgy Lukacs
  • The Influence of Istvan Bibo
  • Kis and Bence: Toward an East European Marxism?
  • The Social Contract of Beszelo and "Radical Reformism"
  • Kis' Democratic Alternative
  • Miklos Haraszti: The Nature of Repression for Workers and Artists
  • Theorizing Civil Society: Konrad's Antipolitics
  • Section 3.
  • Chapter 8. The Dissident Contribution to Political Theory
  • Defining the Problem: Civil Society and the Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private
  • Toward a Reconstituted Public Sphere: Central European and Western Intersections in Theorizing Civil Society
  • Reappraising Civil Society: Feminist Critiques
  • Political Economy as Critique: The Dissidents Meet the Market
  • Dissident Thought as Reconstructed Liberalism
  • Political Theory Engages with Dissident Theory
  • Marginalization or Public Engagement: The Role of Central European Intellectuals in the Post-Communist Era
  • Bibliography
  • Personal Interviews
  • Skilling Seminar, Toronto
  • Filmography/Videography
  • Notes
  • Index