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Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism - Unlicensed Print Culture in Poland 1976-1990 (Paperback)
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Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism - Unlicensed Print Culture in Poland 1976-1990 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
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This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat
activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role
that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional
movement in Poland between 1976 and 1990. This unlicensed print
culture has been seen as one of the most emblematic social worlds
of dissent. Since the Cold War, the audacity of harnessing obsolete
print technology known as samizdat to break the modern monopoly of
information of the party-state has fascinated many, yet this book
looks beyond the Cold War frame to reappraise its historical
novelty and significance. What made that culture resilient and
rewarding, this book argues, was the correspondence between certain
set of ideas and media practices: namely, the form of samizdat
social media, which both embodied and projected the prefigurative
philosophy of political action, asserting that small forms of
collective agency can have a transformative effect on public life
here and now, and are uniquely capable of achieving a democratic
new beginning. This prefigurative vision of the transition from
communism had a fundamental impact on the broader oppositional
movement. Yet, while both the rise of Solidarity and the
breakthrough of 1989 seemed to do justice to that vision, both
pivotal moments found samizdat social media activists making
history that was not to their liking. Back in the day, their
estrangement was overshadowed by the main axis of contention
between the society and the state. Foregrounding the internal
controversies they protagonized, this book adds nuance to our
understanding of the broader legacy of dissent and its relevance
for the networked protests of today.
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