Expression of Dissidence: NOW-a Publishing House as a Social Movement Campaign under an Authoritarian Regime

Abstract

The research article (Expression of Dissidence) analyses Polish underground publishing during the late Cold War using the NOW-a publishing house as an example. The innovation of my approach lies in an attempt to bring closer Western and Eastern studies on various aspects of resistance. The subject of Polish resistance has already been studied but not with reference to the concept of everyday resistance. The protest sites are examined more closely with the question of how urban and rural geography can play a role in bringing a movement together. More broadly, what my contribution offers is to revive Charles Tilly’s concepts to study Polish resistance and to see historical developments from a social movement perspective.