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...Kevin M. F. Platt [email protected] Igor Golomstock , A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art under the Soviets ( London : I. B. Tauris , 2019 ), 266 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 The persecuted Soviet author and, eventually, Parisian émigré...

...Jeffrey C. Isaac Duke University Press 2004 RETHINKING THE LEGACY OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN DISSIDENCE Jeffrey C. Isaac It is now more than a quarter century since the first expressions of Central Euro- pean “antipolitical” dissidence—Václav Havel’s open letter to President Husák, Adam...

...Orville Schell This essay, written in memory of the Chinese astrophysicist and dissident Fang Lizhi, reexamines the period in Fang's life when he was vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China and, because of his activities as an educational and political reformer, came...

... both these controversies rose from the same underground stream of medieval dissidence, discussing the contributions of the leading characters in the story and seeking to describe the common ground of idea and ideology which unites the history and which suggests that Quietism represents an archetype...

...Václav Havel; Adam Michnik; Translated by Clare Cavanagh; Jeffrey M. Perl This guest column amounts to a conversation between two of the most crucial Soviet bloc dissidents about developments since the 1989 overthrow of communismin their part of the world. They agree that a “creeping coup d’état...

... by dissident colleagues (for instance, Donald Davie in Purity of Diction in English Verse ) to write exclusively didactic poetry, and to write it with the logical, linear clarity and straightforward syntax of rigorous yet easily followed argumentative prose. In the triumphalist variant, professors...

...Václav Havel; Adam Michnik This guest column amounts to a conversation between two of the crucial figures in the world of Soviet bloc dissidents about developments in their part of the world since the overthrow of communism there in 1989. They agree that a “creeping coup d'état” is underway...

...Adam Michnik This essay is a memorial tribute from one member of the Common Knowledge editorial board to another. Adam Michnik, a cofounder of the first dissident organization in East-Central Europe, writes about the details and the symbolic importance of his first meeting, in 1978 on Mt. Snĕžka...

... the Inquisition to overclarify for posterity the distinctions that existed between ethno religious groups and to define for us the nature of religious dissidence in early modern Spain. This article is based on a lecture given in April 2011 at the Whitney Humanities Center of Yale University in a series...

...) the independence of the dissidents from Western, as much as Soviet, 39 prearrangements. Opponents of the old regime now opposed the defenestration of communists and expressed misgivings about the free market and consumer...

...) the independence of the dissidents from Western, as much as Soviet, 39 prearrangements. Opponents of the old regime now opposed the defenestration of communists and expressed misgivings about the free market and consumer...

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... the archetypal loyal dissident, never more devoted to the Lord than when he challenges him. The two authors whom I bring together in this review have never met. I celebrate them for how each has found a way to be loyal to the universal while never deserting the particulars of the traditions that have shaped him...