Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History. Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century

0485144 - ÚSD 2018 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Zahradníček, Tomáš
Wałęsa's Absence from Czech Society.
Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History. Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century. Stuttgart: ibidem, 2017 - (Vít, M.; Baran, M.), s. 387-393. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPSS), 170. ISBN 978-3-8382-1015-5
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : Lech Wałęsa * Poland * communism * dissent * post-communism
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

This paper focuses on the public representation of Polish dissident and former president Lech Wałęsa - or conspicuous lack of it. It first examines Wałęsa's image in the press of Communist Czechoslovakia in the context of general lack of information about Polish uprising and the Solidarity movement. The author then focuses on Wałęsa's absence from the post-Communist discourse, salient in the context of popularity of Czech dissidents in the other countries of the Eastern bloc.
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