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Moscow-Prague, Prague-Moscow: On a Complex Dissent Relationship

Sun, November 24, 10:00 to 11:45am, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, Floor: 4, Pacific D

Abstract

On August 25th 1968 eight Soviet citizens protested on the Red Square in Moscow against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the troops of the Warsaw pact. Consequently, many Czech and Slovak dissident texts were translated into Russian and disseminated by samizdat (such as Ludvík Vaculík's speech during the Congress of Czechoslovak Writers in 1967). Drawing on Harvard Peter Reddaway and Elena Bonner archives, the aim of this paper is to explore the dissident network connecting Russian and Czechoslovak dissidents.

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