Benda was a keen analyst of Communist totalitarianism who was heavily involved in many facets of resistance. The writings collected in this volume thus offer a unique perspective on life under a Communist regime.
... Václav Benda , The Long Night of the Watchman : Essays by Václav Benda , 1977-1989 , ed . F. Flagg Taylor IV , trans . Barbara Day ( South Bend , IN : St. Augustine's Press , 2017 ) , 218 . 10. Roger Scruton , Notes from Underground ...
"This book features the letters of two outstanding Czech intellectuals (who happened to be brothers in law), namely Zdeněk Neubauer (1942-2016) and Václav Benda (1946-1999).
... Václav Benda, author Ludvík Vaculík, Václav Havel, author Milan Kundera, politician Jacek Kuroń from Czechoslovakia, and historian Adam Michnik from Poland all appear in Hankiss's book.39 Václav Benda and the poet and 'ideologue' of the ...
... Vaclav Benda , " The Parallel Polis , " in H. Gordon Skilling and Paul Wilson , eds . , Civic Freedom in Central Europe ( London : Macmillan , 1991 ) , 35-41 . 23. Ibid . , 36 . 24. Skilling , Samizdat and an Independent Society in ...
... Václav Benda reported that he received thousands of signatures and passed them on to Cardinal Tomášek. Václav Benda, interview by author, Prague, Czech Republic, 24 July 1996. Krčméry claimed responsibility for collecting 150,000 ...
... Václav Benda's “Parallel Polis” Václav Benda was a contemporary, friend, fellow-Chartist and coprisoner of Havel from 1979 to 1983. Both a mathematician and a philosopher, Benda was a student activist in 1968, serving as Chair of the ...
... Vaclav Benda , Jiři Dienstbier , Vaclav Havel , Ladislav Lis , Vaclav Maly , Dana Nemcova , Jiři Nemec , and Peter Uhl . All were also activists of Charter 77. Among the arrested were the spokesmen of the charter , Jiři Dienstbier and ...