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Václav 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, Václav 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

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political activism

• Full title: The Power of the Powerless
• Author: Václav Havel
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781784875046
• ISBN: 9781784875046
• ID: 19391697
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 98 g
• Dimensions: 111 × 176 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. September 2018

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