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- Title
Human Rights Facing a National Past: Dissident "Civic Patriotism" and the Return of History in East Central Europe, 1968-1989.
- Authors
Kopeček, Michal
- Abstract
The article discusses the nexus between discourses about human rights and about nationalism, national history, and national identity among anti-Communist, democratic dissidents in Eastern Europe between the Prague Spring and the end of the Cold War. The author examines the attempts by samizdat intellectuals, including Polish historian Adam Michnik, Czech writer Petr Pithart, and Hungarian writer Miklós Szabó, to excavate liberal legacies in their countries' national histories and unearth potential sources of civil society.
- Subjects
EASTERN Europe; HUMAN rights; CIVIL society; EASTERN European nationalism; NATIONALISM &; historiography; DISSENTERS; INTELLECTUALS; MICHNIK, Adam, 1946-; PITHART, Petr; SZABO, Miklos; UNDERGROUND literature; ANTI-communist movements; EASTERN European history, 1945-1989; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2012, Vol 38, Issue 4, p573
- ISSN
0340-613X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/gege.2012.38.4.573