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Dissent Gains Names and Faces

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Dissidents in Communist Central Europe

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To become transnationally functioning personas and to gain recognition, the dissidents needed to be individualized—and known by name. While Stalinist propaganda tended to bundle opponents together under broad categories of enemies, in the 1960s Communist media opted for individual condemnation of defiant acts. That gave dissenters, particularly after 1968, a large dose of domestic notoriety, which was additionally amplified by exilic press and most importantly—Western radio stations. This chapter introduces several key dissident characters, each representing a slightly different category, having acquired renown in different conditions and for different acts.

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Szulecki, K. (2019). Dissent Gains Names and Faces. In: Dissidents in Communist Central Europe. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22613-8_4

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