Dissidents in Communist Central Europe Human Rights and the Emergence of New Transnational Actors /

• Main Author: Szulecki, Kacper (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Subjects: Social history.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Labor-History.; World politics.; Social History.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Labor History.; Political History.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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?.