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The study analyses the attitude of the Communist regime towards dissent and towards human rights. It outlines the origin, development and outcomes of the human rights movement and in this framework it evaluates the role of the members of dissent. The author points out that during the Communist Party’s rule, human rights were not observed, they were interpreted from the perspective of social classes...
Without intelligentsia, particularly without intellectuals, there would be neither Communist ideology, nor Communist movement. Intellectual personalities (actors, writers, social scientists and also teachers) gradually, more or less conspicuously, left the Communist ranks. Their active participation grew into anti-Communist dissent. In Slovakia, this process was inconsistent and stopped somewhere...
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