Samizdat: Collection of Polish Underground Literature (90 Polish Samizdat Publications and Ephemera)

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Various publishers, 1990. Mostly softcovers. Very good condition. Collection of so-called Samizdat literature, a clandestine system of publishing and distributing uncensored literature and compilations of historical data supressed by the governments across the Eastern block. This collection was compiled during the 1980s and 1990s in Poland and shown in part in an exhibition in 1997. This broad array of publications by Polish underground presses, printers and activists, goes far beyond similar publications of other countries of the Eastern block. The so-called literature of the "second generation" was produced by a wide underground network made possible due to hard-earned freedoms provided by the actions of the Solidarity Trade Union founded in September 1980 at the Gedansk Shipyard, led by Lech Walesa. This collection is an authentic documentation of the last phase of the Cold War when Polish workers questioned the "Real Socialist" state dependent on Russia, and fought for national and religious freedom. The collection contains reference books, e.g. the Hand Codex for Conspiracy, historical treatises on countries of the Eastern Block, Works on underground movements in the Eastern Block, statements of politicians, e.g. Lech Walesa, commemorative essays, e.g. on the Warsaw Ghetto, Kolakowski's "Can the Devil be Saved and Other Sermons," Mihajlo's "Contributions to the Phenomenology of Slavery," Polish reference works, Nobel Price for Walesa, children's books, Popper's "Open Soc

• Publisher: Various publishers
• Year: 1990
• Binding: unknown

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