Václav Havel

Year of Publication: 1987

Havel, VáclavVladislav, Jan, The Power of the Powerless, ed. Vladislav, Jan, In , Living in Truth: 22 Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel London, Faber, , 1987, pp. 315, pp. 36-122

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Influential analysis of ‘post-totalitarian’ society and politics in the Soviet bloc in the 1970s and eloquent argument for individual integrity and acts of dissent by lead Czechoslovak playwright and dissident, who became President after 1989. This text inspired many activists in Eastern Europe and others round the world, including Aung San Suu Kyi, leading figure in the nonviolent resistance in Burma from 1988.

Havel, VáclavVladislav, Jan, Living in Truth: 22 Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel, ed. Vladislav, Jan, London, Faber, 1987, pp. 315

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Václav Havel

Year of Publication: 1987

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