The dilemmas of dissidence in East-Central Europe

• List of Abbreviations
• p. xi

• Preface
• p. xv

• A Note on Nomenclature
• p. xxix

• Acknowledgments
• p. xxxiii

• Chapter 1
• Introduction
• p. 1

• Section 1

• Chapter 2
• Poland: The Harbinger of Crisis and Collapse
• p. 13

• Intellectual Opposition in Poland: 1956-1965
• p. 13

• The Catholic Church in Poland
• p. 18

• The Students' Protest: March, 1968
• p. 22

• The Workers' Protest: Gdansk, 1970
• p. 27

• The Events of June, 1976: Radom, Ursus, and Beyond
• p. 34

• Komitet Obrony Robotnikow (KOR): The Workers' Defense Committee
• p. 35

• The Alternative Civil Society?
• p. 40

• Towarzystwo Kursow Naukowych (TKN): The Flying University
• p. 42

• The Pope's Visit, 1979
• p. 43

• Solidarity (Solidarnosc)
• p. 45

• Intellectuals within Solidarity
• p. 49

• Martial Law and its Aftermath
• p. 51

• Solidarity Underground
• p. 53

• Re-Legalization, the Roundtable Talks (RT), and Free Elections
• p. 56

• Chapter 3
• Czechoslovakia: From Interrupted to Velvet Revolution
• p. 59

• Czechoslovak Stalinism and the Role of Intellectuals
• p. 59

• The Economic Crisis of the 1960s
• p. 62

• Proposals for Economic Reform
• p. 63

• The Writers' Union and the Cultural Renaissance of the 1960s
• p. 65

• The Student/Youth Movements and Strahov
• p. 68

• The Prague Spring
• p. 70

• The Action Program and Soviet Response
• p. 71

• Independent Currents: The Untimely Rebirth of Civil Society
• p. 76

• Cierna nad Tisou
• p. 77

• Crisis: Soviet Mobilization and the Moscow Protocols
• p. 79

• Normalization
• p. 80

• The Underground Music Scene and the Trial of the PPU
• p. 84

• The Helsinki Accords and Charter 77
• p. 88

• Vybor na Obranu Nespravedlive Stihanych (VONS)
• p. 92

• The "Underground University"
• p. 92

• Samizdat Publishing and Distribution
• p. 94

• Repression and Resistance in the Czech Lands and Slovakia in the 1980s
• p. 95

• The Underground Church in Slovakia
• p. 100

• The Tide Turns: "Just a Few Sentences"
• p. 102

• The GDR Exodus and the Fall of the Wall
• p. 103

• November 17 and the Birth of Civic Forum and Public against Violence
• p. 103

• Havel na Hrad
• p. 106

• The New Year's Address and the Consolidation of Democracy
• p. 107

• Chapter 4
• Post-1956 Hungary: Repression, Reform, and Roundtable Revolution
• p. 109

• The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Lessons and Legacies
• p. 109

• Kadarite Communism
• p. 112

• The Politics of Economic Reform: The NEM
• p. 113

• Socialist Redistribution and the Second Economy
• p. 116

• Intellectuals: On the Road to Class Power?
• p. 118

• The Budapest School
• p. 122

• "Populist" vs. "Democratic" Dissent
• p. 125

• Beszelo and Hungarian Samizdat
• p. 130

• Toward an Alliance: The Bibo Festschrift and Monor
• p. 135

• Lakitelek
• p. 138

• Intra-party and Election Reform
• p. 139

• The Rebirth of Civil Society
• p. 142

• Ellenzeki Kerekasztal (EKA) and the "Pacted Transition"
• p. 146

• The "Four Yeses" Referendum
• p. 151

• June 16, 1989: The Reburial of Imre Nagy
• p. 152

• Section 2

• Chapter 5
• Intellectuals in Poland: The Tradition Continues
• p. 157

• Leszek Kolakowski: A Source of Hope amidst Hopelessness
• p. 157

• Adam Michnik's Alliance Strategy: The Church and the Left
• p. 165

• "A New Evolutionism"
• p. 177

• Non-violence as Theory and Practice
• p. 180

• Kuron: A Bridge between Generations
• p. 184

• Theorizing Civil Society: The Polish Case
• p. 192

• Chapter 6
• Opposition Intellectuals in Czechoslovakia
• p. 199

• Vaclav Havel's Theatre of the Absurd
• p. 199

• The Evolution of "Living in Truth": Its Meaning and Consequences
• p. 204

• From Playwright to Dissident in Husak's Czechoslovakia
• p. 208

• Theorizing Resistance: "The Power of the Powerless"
• p. 215

• "Politics and Conscience" and the Destructive Capacities of Technology
• p. 225

• Largo Desolato, Temptation, and the Vanek Plays
• p. 229

• Letters to Olga: "Being" and the "Absolute"
• p. 236

• The Decisive Influence of Jan Patocka
• p. 242

• Vaclav Benda's "Parallel Polis"
• p. 247

• The Collective Oeuvre of the Chartists
• p. 251

• Theorizing Civil Society: The Czechoslovak Example
• p. 254

• Chapter 7
• The Democratic Opposition in Hungary
• p. 257

• The Philosophical Legacy of Gyorgy Lukacs
• p. 257

• The Influence of Istvan Bibo
• p. 261

• Kis and Bence: Toward an East European Marxism?
• p. 266

• The Social Contract of Beszelo and "Radical Reformism"
• p. 277

• Kis' Democratic Alternative
• p. 281

• Miklos Haraszti: The Nature of Repression for Workers and Artists
• p. 290

• Theorizing Civil Society: Konrad's Antipolitics
• p. 298

• Section 3

• Chapter 8
• The Dissident Contribution to Political Theory
• p. 313

• Defining the Problem: Civil Society and the Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private
• p. 313

• Toward a Reconstituted Public Sphere: Central European and Western Intersections in Theorizing Civil Society
• p. 316

• Reappraising Civil Society: Feminist Critiques
• p. 325

• Political Economy as Critique: The Dissidents Meet the Market
• p. 327

• Dissident Thought as Reconstructed Liberalism
• p. 334

• Political Theory Engages with Dissident Theory
• p. 348

• Marginalization or Public Engagement: The Role of Central European Intellectuals in the Post-Communist Era
• p. 354

• Bibliography
• p. 365

• Personal Interviews
• p. 397

• Skilling Seminar, Toronto
• p. 398

• Filmography/Videography
• p. 398

• Notes
• p. 399

• Index
• p. 463