Messengers of the Free Word
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Messengers of the Free Word

Paris Prague Warsaw, 19681971

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Messengers of the Free Word

Paris Prague Warsaw, 19681971

About this book

The book presents an important and well known but so far not described episode in the history of banned books in the communist Poland ā€“ the activity of the so-called Tatra climbers. They were students and scholars from Warsaw, who initiated a risky cooperation with the centre of Polish political emigration in Paris ā€“ Kultura monthly. Inspired by the Prague Spring they tried to develop cooperation between the students from Eastern Bloc countries, smuggled books through the Polish-Slovak border, and gathered texts critical about communist rulers. After a few months, their activity was stopped by the Polish political police. The monograph shows the circumstances and motivations behind this dangerous activity of young people, traces the police investigation against them, and describes the mock trial in 1970.

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Yes, you can access Messengers of the Free Word by Bartosz Kaliski, Yelizaveta Crofts in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Eastern European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9783631818763
eBook ISBN
9783631834794
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Eastern European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright information
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. ChapterĀ 1 Combating the ļ»æKulturaļ»æ Monthly
  7. ChapterĀ 2 Where, How and by Whom Were Publications of the Instytut Literacki Read in 1960s Poland?
  8. ChapterĀ 3 Roots and Political Initiation of the Main Characters
  9. ChapterĀ 4 ļ»æKulturaļ»æ Team Toward the Prague Spring
  10. ChapterĀ 5 The First Successes of the Conspirators
  11. ChapterĀ 6 Mistakes and Failures of the Conspirators
  12. ChapterĀ 7 Surveillance, Investigations, Directing the Trial
  13. ChapterĀ 8 The Trial (Some Aspects)
  14. Was it Worth Being Against?Ā An Epilogue
  15. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  16. ACRONYMS
  17. Index of persons