Samizdat And An Independent Society In Central And Eastern Europe

Author : H.Gordon Skilling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349092843
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe written by H.Gordon Skilling and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the "independent life of society" (dissent) in Central and Eastern Europe examines the forms of independent activity at work today. Included are autonomous family life, religion and nationalism, the second economy, "samizdat" communications, the second culture and social deviance.

Author : Friederike Kind-Kovács
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857455869
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond written by Friederike Kind-Kovács and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways what is identified today as “cultural globalization” in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat (“do-it-yourself” underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War, as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products instigated and sustained by these practices. By expanding the definitions of samizdat and tamizdat from explicitly political print publications to include other forms and genres, this volume investigates the wider cultural sphere of alternative and semi-official texts, broadcast media, reproductions of visual art and music, and, in the post-1989 period, new media. The underground circulation of uncensored texts in the Cold War era serves as a useful foundation for comparison when looking at current examples of censorship, independent media, and the use of new media in countries like China, Iran, and the former Yugoslavia.

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Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samizdat written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Jiang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137492082
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen Publications in China Before the Internet written by S. Jiang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first panoramic study of minkan (citizen publications) in China before the Internet. This recent history of citizen publications contributes to the reclamation of a lost past of resistance. It is an exercise in remembering a past that has been marginalized by official history and recovering ideas obliterated by state power.

Author : Paul G. Lewis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349221740
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Civil Society in Eastern Europe written by Paul G. Lewis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents an informed and wide-ranging examination of issues surrounding the development and future prospects of civil society in Eastern Europe. The contributions, mostly by leading East European scholars, relate the key concept of civil society to the processes that led to the collapse of communism and which bear on prospects for the establishment of a democratic order throughout the region. The development of the concept is related to questions like those surrounding economic policy and reform and the women's movement.

Author : Piotr Wciślik
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000417972
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism written by Piotr Wciślik and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional movement in Poland between 1976 and 1990. This unlicensed print culture has been seen as one of the most emblematic social worlds of dissent. Since the Cold War, the audacity of harnessing obsolete print technology known as samizdat to break the modern monopoly of information of the party-state has fascinated many, yet this book looks beyond the Cold War frame to reappraise its historical novelty and significance. What made that culture resilient and rewarding, this book argues, was the correspondence between certain set of ideas and media practices: namely, the form of samizdat social media, which both embodied and projected the prefigurative philosophy of political action, asserting that small forms of collective agency can have a transformative effect on public life here and now, and are uniquely capable of achieving a democratic new beginning. This prefigurative vision of the transition from communism had a fundamental impact on the broader oppositional movement. Yet, while both the rise of Solidarity and the breakthrough of 1989 seemed to do justice to that vision, both pivotal moments found samizdat social media activists making history that was not to their liking. Back in the day, their estrangement was overshadowed by the main axis of contention between the society and the state. Foregrounding the internal controversies they protagonized, this book adds nuance to our understanding of the broader legacy of dissent and its relevance for the networked protests of today.

Author : H.Gordon Skilling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349111171
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civic Freedom in Central Europe written by H.Gordon Skilling and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording the views of dissidents on the nature of their own activities, this book contains over 20 short essays by a number of leading people from Charter 77. Contributors include Vaclav Havel, Eva Kanturkova, Libuse Silhanova, and Zdenek Rotrekl.

Author : Włodzimierz Borodziej
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000096181
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century written by Włodzimierz Borodziej and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual Horizons offers a pioneering, transnational and comparative treatment of key thematic areas in the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. For most of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern European ideas and cultures constituted an integral part of wider European trends. However, the intellectual and cultural history of this diverse region has rarely been incorporated sufficiently into nominally comprehensive histories of Europe. This volume redresses this underrepresentation and provides a more balanced perspective on the recent past of the continent through original, critical overviews of themes ranging from the social and conceptual history of intellectuals and histories of political thought and historiography, to literary, visual and religious cultures, to perceptions and representations of the region in the twentieth century. While structured thematically, individual contributions are organized chronologically. They emphasize, where relevant, generational experiences, agendas and accomplishments, while taking into account the sharp ruptures that characterize the period. The third in a four-volume set on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, it is the go-to resource for understanding the intellectual and cultural history of this dynamic region.

Author : William E Griffith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429718691
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central And Eastern Europe written by William E Griffith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of workshop articles by The East-West Forum, located in Washington, D.C., and New York, a research and policy analysis organization sponsored by the Samuel Bronfman Foundation. The Forum aims to build a bridge between scholarship and policymaking. This volume holds the examination of perestroika against the history of the communist countries of Europe.

Author : Jiřina Šmejkalová
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900419357X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Books in the ‘Other’ Europe and What Came After written by Jiřina Šmejkalová and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on analyses of the socio-cultural context of East and Central Europe, focusing on the Czech cultural dynamics of the Cold War and its aftermath, this book examines the making and breaking of centrally-controlled book production and reception.