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This book explores the lessons that can be gleaned through a look from the East Central European experience of dissent for dissent and resistance as general modern phenomena.

Lessons from the Revolutions of 1989 in East Central Europe has a two-fold purpose: (1) to teach about, in an accessible way, the East Central European culture of dissent, and (2) to explore connections between that time and place and our own post-1989 globalized world where dissent and resistance are more prominent and necessary than ever. Scholars of the pre-1989 East Central European culture of dissent do not, as a matter of course, look for lessons in their subject, and the scarcity of scholarly literature that explores this angle only confirms our point. At the same time, this avoidance, perhaps for good methodological reasons, does seem rather odd. Why not try to draw lessons-for us in the here and now-from studying the cultural-historical space of pre-1989 East Central Europe? This question seems especially important given that the intellectual dissidents did not think that what was happening in their time and place was isolated from the modern world as a whole: they thought that there were lessons to be drawn for the "West" from the experience of the "East."

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Table of Contents

1: What do Do When You Find Yourself in a Revolutionary Situation
2: Space and Revolution
3: Time and Revolution
4: Transitional Justice after Revolution
5: Us versus Them? The Case of Poland
6: Can Democracy Emerge from Dictatorship?
7: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
8: (Un)Learning 1989: (Non)Violence
9: The Romanian Revolution of December 1989
10: Art, Transcendence, and Revolution
11: Affective Dissent and Legacies of Trauma
12: Language Matters

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 18 Feb 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9781978769847
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 16 b/w figures
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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