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
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SYSNO ASEP
0485144
Document Type
M - Monograph Chapter
R&D Document Type
Monograph Chapter
Title
Wałęsa's Absence from Czech Society
Author(s)
Zahradníček, Tomáš (USD-C)
Source Title
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. B.
- ISBN 978-3-8382-1015-5
History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Institutional support
USD-C - RVO:68378114
Annotation
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.
