Making Sense of Dictatorship. Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945

0556669 - ÚSD 2023 RIV HU eng M - Monography Chapter
Kopeček, Michal
Dissident Legalism. Human Rights, Socialist Legality, and the Birth of Legal Resistance in the 1970s Democratic Opposition in Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Making Sense of Dictatorship. Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945. Budapest: CEU Press, 2022 - (Donert, C.; Kladnik, A.; Sabrow, M.), s. 241-269. ISBN 978-963-386-427-2
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTC18040
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : legalism * civic rights * dissident legalism
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The study focuses on legalism as a key political strategy used by dissidents in Czechoslovakia and Poland in their struggle for civic rights. One of the main aims of the study is to show how closely dissident legalism was linked to the “socialist legality”, i. e. the official legal-political structures and doctrines. Further, it shows how diverse were the sources and practices of dissident legalism, related to a large extent also to the different genealogies and structures of political opposition in Czechoslovakia and Poland in the second half of the 1970s.



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