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Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. H. Gordon Skilling

    1. University of Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Samizdat in the USSR, China and Central Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Samizdat: A Return to the Pre-Gutenberg Era?

      • H. Gordon Skilling
      Pages 3-18

    3. Independent Communications in Central Europe

      • H. Gordon Skilling
      Pages 19-40

  3. Independent Tendencies in Czechoslovakia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Dissent and Charter 77

      • H. Gordon Skilling
      Pages 43-72

    3. Other Independent Currents

      • H. Gordon Skilling
      Pages 73-98

    4. Independent Historiography Reborn

      • H. Gordon Skilling
      Pages 99-122

    5. Parallel Politics

      • H. Gordon Skilling
      Pages 123-154

  4. Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. A Second Society: A Theoretical Framework

      • H. Gordon Skilling
      Pages 157-176

    3. A Second Polity: Contrasting Patterns of Reality

      • H. Gordon Skilling
      Pages 177-218

    4. Towards an Independent Society?

      • H. Gordon Skilling
      Pages 219-238

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 239-293
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Keywords

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Canada

    H. Gordon Skilling

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe

  • Authors: H. Gordon Skilling

  • Series Title: St Antony's Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09284-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09284-0Published: 18 June 1989

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5964

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 293

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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