Shining Light on Hidden Preferences: The Role of Religious Institutions in the 1989 Romanian Revolution

"A spectre is haunting Eastern Europe: the spectre of what in the West is called 'dissent.'" This is how Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright, dissident, and President, began his influential 1978 essay, "The Power of the Powerless." Havel's statement of dissent in Ea...

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Published in:Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe
Main Author: Clardie, Justin (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: George Fox University 2017
In: Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe
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