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Czech responses

Anonymous

pp. 42-117

Abstract

Notions like "independent society", "the second culture", "unofficial literature", "samizdat", "independent initiatives", "parallel structures", "the self-organisation of society", 'social self-defence", etc. have their origin in totalitarian communist systems. They characterise conflicts between independent thought and behaviour, and the totalitarian state, which demands control over all aspects of social life. In democratic and authoritarian systems autonomous institutions of social life are a fact of life: in totalitarian systems, such institutions must struggle to establish themselves.

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Published in:

Skilling Harald Gordon, Wilson Paul (1991) Civic freedom in central Europe: voices from Czechoslovakia. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 42-117

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11117-6_3

Full citation:

Anonymous (1991) „Czech responses“, In: H.G. Skilling & P. Wilson (eds.), Civic freedom in central Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 42–117.