Titlebook: Dissidents in Communist Central Europe; Human Rights and the Kacper Szulecki Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

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,The Birth of the Dissident Figure, 1976–1977, legality, and invocations of international human rights norms. The chapter describes international and domestic reactions to these two initiatives in the West and in the Eastern Bloc, and the visible fashion for the “dissidents” which by 1977 was undeniable.

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The Looping Effect of the Dissident Figure: Resistance and Performance,Finally, the protective effect of transnational recognition is discussed, together with cases in which it did not work—when Central European opposition members were repressed and even killed for their activity.

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Conclusion: Can Dissidentism Explain Post-Dissident Politics?, dissidents’ empowerment—which relied much more on transnational networks than domestic rooting—I try to explain post-dissident politics and the apparent backlash against former prominent dissidents visible across Central Europe, and contributing to the evident rise of illiberalism and democratic backsliding.

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The State as a Concept in Developmenteoccupation with warheads and state leaders, domestic dissent in Eastern Europe attracted Western attention quite late. This introductory chapter reviews the literature on societal opposition to Communist rule and lays out the approach of this book. Since dissidents function as transnational actors,

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2579-7er provides a compendium of five definitions, gathered through a board literature review and interviews with former human rights activists and political oppositionists. It then traces the evolution of the meaning of the dissident from its religious root to its first secular and political application

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Borhan Uddin Khan,Md Al Ifran Hossain Mollahtarian regimes an international audience and potential support. However, Stalinist regimes used repression and denunciation as tools that thwarted dissent, and closed borders blocked transnational circulation. Only the move to a post-totalitarian system following Stalin’s death enabled first open ac

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Structure, Management Methods and Planningthe struggle with Communist authoritarianism. Three elements had to be in place before the transnational figure of the dissident in the form that we now know it could emerge. Firstly, the massive wave of emigration after 1968 created a network of “dissident interpreters” ready to publicize and expla

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24195-8ncreasingly favorable for political opposition behind the Iron Curtain. Two Central European initiatives became pivotal in establishing dissidence as a new object of Western attention: the Polish . (KOR) and the Czechoslovak .. Though differing in their goals, they shared their openness, emphasis on