| Resistance/Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe: Survey of Scholars |
| Wednesday, 10 February 2010 15:40 | |
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Dear colleagues, You have been asked to participate in this brief survey because you are interested in, have written on, and/or published on forms of resistance and dissent (e.g. samizdat tamizdat and official and/or grey zone opposition) during the communist era in Central/Eastern Europe. I will be using the results to write “state of the research in the field” piece for East European Politics and Societies, as part of an upcoming special issue on dissent, edited by Paul Blokker and Robert Brier. My plan is to write an article that assesses what scholars currently think about research on forms of resistance and dissent. I will also be examining scholarly literature published since 1989-1991. I’m particularly interested in your views on what the current “state of the art” is. If you agree to participate, I will most happily share electronically all of the results, and credit your participation (or not, if you wish to remain anonymous). As well, I plan to submit the entire collection of responses to Olga Zaslavskaya at the Samizdat Archive of the Open Society Archives in Budapest, as well as the International Samizdat [Research] Association (ISRA). I’m looking for open-ended responses to the following questions. However, if you want to provide other documents or articles that illustrate the level of your research or provide examples of it, please feel free to do so. I will not cite any unpublished articles or manuscripts without permission. Furthermore, if you are part of any larger research projects, please provide background information as to the nature, scope, and timelines of those projects. 1) What is your own area of inquiry (e.g. former Soviet Union, Central/Eastern Europe) and is your work country specific or comparative? Please include any information about larger projects of which you are a part. 2) In your opinion, what has been done, in terms of topics, themes, issues, resources (archival, textual, oral) either in single state or comparative studies? 3) In your opinion, what is still missing, in terms of topics, themes, issues, resources? 4) What has been gained via access to archives, in terms of a fundamental understanding of forms of resistance? What has been gained via oral history research? 5) Are you willing to share information that you are working on? What are the important questions, sources, and methodologies that you are working on yourself? Barbara J. Falk, Associate Professor Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College of Canada University of Toronto Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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