Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Section 1 Chapter 2 POLAND: THE HARBINGER OF CRISIS AND COLLAPSE Intellectual Opposition in Poland: 1956–1965 The Catholic Church in Poland The Students’ Protest: March, 1968 The Workers’ Protest: Gdansk, 1970 The Events of June, 1976: Radom, Ursus, and Beyond Komitet Obrony Robotników (KOR): The Workers’ Defense Committee The Alternative Civil Society? Towarzystwo Kursów Naukowych (TKN): The Flying University The Pope’s Visit, 1979 Solidarity (Solidarnosc) Intellectuals within Solidarity Martial Law and its Aftermath Solidarity Underground Re-Legalization, the Roundtable Talks (RT), and Free Elections Chapter 3 CZECHOSLOVAKIA: FROM INTERRUPTED TO VELVET REVOLUTION Czechoslovak Stalinism and the Role of Intellectuals The Economic Crisis of the 1960s Proposals for Economic Reform The Writers’ Union and the Cultural Renaissance of the 1960s The Student/Youth Movements and Strahov The Prague Spring The Action Program and Soviet Response Independent Currents: The Untimely Rebirth of Civil Society Cierna nad Tisou Crisis: Soviet Mobilization and the Moscow Protocols Normalization The Underground Music Scene and the Trial of the PPU The Helsinki Accords and Charter 77 Výbor na Obranu Nespravedlive Stihaných (VONS) The “Underground University” Samizdat Publishing and Distribution Repression and Resistance in the Czech Lands and Slovakia in the 1980s The Underground Church in Slovakia The Tide Turns: “Just a Few Sentences” The GDR Exodus and the Fall of the Wall November 17 and the Birth of Civic Forum and Public against Violence Havel na Hrad The New Year’s Address and the Consolidation of Democracy Chapter 4 POST-1956 HUNGARY: REPRESSION, REFORM, AND ROUNDTABLE REVOLUTION The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Lessons and Legacies Kádárite Communism The Politics of Economic Reform: The NEM Socialist Redistribution and the Second Economy Intellectuals: On the Road to Class Power? The Budapest School “Populist” vs. “Democratic” Dissent Beszélö and Hungarian Samizdat Toward an Alliance: The Bibó Festschrift and Monor Lakitelek Intra-party and Election Reform The Rebirth of Civil Society Ellenzéki Kerekasztal (EKA) and the “Pacted Transition” The “Four Yeses” Referendum June 16, 1989: The Reburial of Imre Nagy Section 2 Chapter 5 Intellectuals in Poland: The Tradition Continues Leszek Kolakowski: A Source of Hope amidst Hopelessness Adam Michnik’s Alliance Strategy: The Church and the Left “A New Evolutionism” Non-violence as Theory and Practice Kuron: A Bridge between Generations Theorizing Civil Society: The Polish Case Chapter 6 OPPOSITION INTELLECTUALS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA Václav Havel’s Theatre of the Absurd The Evolution of “Living in Truth”: Its Meaning and Consequences From Playwright to Dissident in Husák’s Czechoslovakia Theorizing Resistance: “The Power of the Powerless” “Politics and Conscience” and the Destructive Capacities of Technology Largo Desolato, Temptation, and the Vanek Plays Letters to Olga: “Being” and the “Absolute” The Decisive Influence of Jan Patocka Václav Benda’s “Parallel Polis” The Collective Oeuvre of the Chartists Theorizing Civil Society: The Czechoslovak Example Chapter 7 THE DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION IN HUNGARY The Philosophical Legacy of György Lukács The Influence of István Bibó Kis and Bence: Toward an East European Marxism? The Social Contract of Beszélö and “Radical Reformism” Kis’ Democratic Alternative Miklós Haraszti: The Nature of Repression for Workers and Artists Theorizing Civil Society: Konrád’s Antipolitics Section 3 Chapter 8 THE DISSIDENT CONTRIBUTION TO POLITICAL THEORY Defining the Problem: Civil Society and the Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Toward a Reconstituted Public Sphere: Central European and Western Intersections in Theorizing Civil Society Reappraising Civil Society: Feminist Critiques Political Economy as Critique: The Dissidents Meet the Market Dissident Thought as Reconstructed Liberalism Political Theory Engages with ....