Titlebook: Dissidents in Communist Central Europe; Human Rights and the Kacper Szulecki Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

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Who Are the Dissidents?,er provides a compendium of five definitions, gathered through a board literature review and interviews with former human rights activists and political oppositionists. It then traces the evolution of the meaning of the dissident from its religious root to its first secular and political application

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Marxist Neophytes and Democratic Heretics,tarian regimes an international audience and potential support. However, Stalinist regimes used repression and denunciation as tools that thwarted dissent, and closed borders blocked transnational circulation. Only the move to a post-totalitarian system following Stalin’s death enabled first open ac

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Dissent Gains Names and Faces,propaganda tended to bundle opponents together under broad categories of enemies, in the 1960s Communist media opted for individual condemnation of defiant acts. That gave dissenters, particularly after 1968, a large dose of domestic notoriety, which was additionally amplified by exilic press and mo

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Between Prague and Helsinki: Setting the Transnational Stage for Dissidence,the struggle with Communist authoritarianism. Three elements had to be in place before the transnational figure of the dissident in the form that we now know it could emerge. Firstly, the massive wave of emigration after 1968 created a network of “dissident interpreters” ready to publicize and expla

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,The Birth of the Dissident Figure, 1976–1977,ncreasingly favorable for political opposition behind the Iron Curtain. Two Central European initiatives became pivotal in establishing dissidence as a new object of Western attention: the Polish . (KOR) and the Czechoslovak .. Though differing in their goals, they shared their openness, emphasis on

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Molding the Dissident Figure,t of Orientalism, this chapter describes how Western experts—“Sovietologists” and media correspondents in particular—helped to create the dissident figure and shape it into something not necessarily resembling any real-life political actors. Experts would “make sense” of the East, but some would als

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The Looping Effect of the Dissident Figure: Resistance and Performance,m, Central European opposition intellectuals began reflecting on it, resisting it, but also performing it and using the new source of visible transnational empowerment for their purposes. The chapter reviews the debate around the “dissident” label and then shows examples of performing dissidentism.