..., with Václav Havel, coorganizer of Charter 77. From his insider’s perspective, the author retells the history of dissent in communist Europe from that time until the Velvet Revolution and Havel’s election as president of Czechoslovakia in 1989. He also assesses the impact of Havel’s work as a playwright...

...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...

... of Fang's career is on his development as a thinker on questions of politics and human rights. Though Fang never returned to China and, while living in the United States, kept his distance from dissident movements, he continued to develop intellectually in ways that made him, in later life, China's Václav...

... are returning to East-Central Europe as well as Russia. COLUMNS “THE PERIOD AFTER 1989” Václav Havel and Adam Michnik Translated by Clare Cavanagh Václav Havel, about to become editor in chief of Hospodárske Noviny...

... The revelations, on the other hand, with which I began this introductionthis began I which with hand, revelations,other The onthe But “the real question,” as Václav Havel put it (1978), “is whether the whether “is (1978), it put Havel Václav question,”as real...

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...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...

... blithely put to one side. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Columns CROSSED WIRES On the Prague-­Paris Surrealist Telephone Derek Sayer In memory of Václav Havel I prefer, once again, walking by night...

... history. intellectual European modern in cializing Knowledge 1989 after Period “The column, coauthored Powszechny Tygodnik journal the by Medal George St. the awarded together were Václav He and Havel Eagle. White ofthe Order the decoration, Polish highest the and government...

...Figure 2. “Venceslaus” from “Venceslaus Nicolaides Vodnianus Notarius” acrostic in hymn Venit dies laeta from Václav Vodňanský, ed., Cantiones Evangelicae (Wittenberg, 1554), fols. L5 r –L5 v . The acrostic continues for several pages. Figure 2. “Venceslaus” from “Venceslaus Nicolaides...

... of Greeks Argen Brazil, Africa, include books South His Scotland. and Egypt, Australia, in Zealand, New tina, universities at taught also has and University Brown Konstan David Václav Havel...

... of the political than of the intel- lectual communities of Europe. But the processes are analogous. As the eupho- ria of 1989 subsided, journals in the West that had lionized Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, and György Konrád noticed (with a condescension that appeared to mask alarm...

... of the political than of the intel- lectual communities of Europe. But the processes are analogous. As the eupho- ria of 1989 subsided, journals in the West that had lionized Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, and György Konrád noticed (with a condescension that appeared to mask alarm...

... values. his ordering or ofintegrating way any with its hope that love should at some time future become the Rauschenbusch, Walteronly law,grandfather, provided maternal his of Christianity secularized Trotsky and JamesWilliam Whitman, and Václav Havel” as he came to conceive...

..., European and United Nations tothe ambassador British aformer Hannay, Lord instance, For governments. and publics toeducate upon were called whenscholars days the 1989 Velvet the of in Revolutions Michnik Adam and Konrád, Václav György Havel, tual infl ofintellec- terms...

...: Routledge, 1994), 198 pp. We have come through a long and bloody century, and something new is stirring everywhere. —Václav Havel, quoted in Michael Novak, The Most Religious Century “I am addressing myself here to God, the only one I...

... to say that Common Knowledge has, for the past twenty- five years, encouraged both quietism and resis- tance in the face of vile behavior. You might say that M. Gandhi and L. Tolstoy have been our guides, though more immediately our guides have been, perhaps, Václav Havel and J. M. Coetzee. What, consis...

... 48 The model of participatory democracy advocated by Václav Havel...