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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781784875046
- Categories BX, BXOS, History, NF HIS, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities, Politics, RM 10 - RM 19.99
- Author(s) Václav Havel
- Publisher Vintage Classics
- Pages 176
- Format Mass Market
- Dimensions 17.5cm x 1cm x 11cm
- Weight 0.115 kg
product description
Vaclav Havel's remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder
Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer's unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves?
Written in 1978, Vaclav Havel's meditation on political dissent - the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it - would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy.
'Havel's diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra
