Socialist opposition in Eastern Europe

dilemmas and prospects

Ivan Szelényi

pp. 187-208

in: Rudolf L. Tőkés (ed), Opposition in Eastern Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1979

Abstract

It has been sufficiently documented what a many-coloured phenomenon East European intellectual dissent and political opposition is. Probably the satellite countries could not match the remarkable variety of Soviet dissent, spreading from Orthodox Christians and Baptists to anarcho-syndicalists and the Stalinist old-guard,¹ but one can observe enough political and ideological diversity in the Czechoslovak reform movement² or in the Hungarian intellectual opposition in the 1960s and 1970s.³