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Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism. By Jonathan Bolton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 343 pp. Notes. Index. $49.95, hard bound.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John Connelly*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

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References

1 Havel uses the words uniformity and anonymity to describe post-totalitarian rule in his Summer Meditations (New York, 1993), 103–4, cited in Porter, Anna, The Ghosts of Europe: Central Europe's Past and Uncertain Future (New York, 2011),Google Scholar

2 Bren, Paulina, The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring (Ithaca, 2010), 200.Google Scholar

3 Havel, Vaclav, "The Trial," Open Letters (New York, 1992), 106.Google Scholar

4 Havel, "Politics and Conscience," Open Letters, 263, 271.Google Scholar

5 Ibid., 260.

6 Žižek, Slavoj, "Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism," London Review of Books, 28 October 1999.Google Scholar

7 Böll, Heinrich and Kolman, Arnošt, cited in Die Zeit, 1 April 1977, at www.zeit. de/1977/14/ostpolitik-aber-mit-wuerde (last accessed 5 December 2012).Google Scholar