The Power of the Powerless

Citizens against the state in central-eastern Europe 

Vaclav Havel et al. 

Introduction by Steven Lukes 

Edited by John Keane 

M. E. Sharpe, Inc. 
Armonk, New York

 

 

Contents

Editor's preface

Introduction
Steven Lukes

 1 The power of the powerless
    Vaclav Havel

 2 Spiritual values, independent initiatives and politics
    Rudolf Battek

 3 Catholicism and politics
    Vaclav Benda

 4 On the question of Chartism
    Vaclav Cerny

 5 The human rights movement and social progress
    Jiri Hajek

 6 Prospects for democracy and socialism in eastern Europe
    Ladislav Hejdanek

 7 Chartism and `real socialism'
Miroslav Kusy

 8 Who really is isolated?
    Jiri Ruml

 9 The alternative community as revolutionary avant-garde
Petr Uhl

10 Thoughts inside a tightly-corked bottle
     Josef Vohryzek

11 On not living in hatred
     Josef Zverina

Appendix Charter 77 Declaration

Notes on Czechoslovak contributors

 

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