书籍是武器：波兰反对派媒体和推翻共产主义

在20世纪80年代波兰共产主义被历史性推翻的过程中，知识分子异见人士、劳工和宗教的作用受到了广泛关注。书籍是武器，这是第一次用英语研究将书籍与媒体联系起来的语言。Siobhan Doucette全面考察了波兰反对派的独立媒体，通常是地下媒体，以及它在导致1989年历史性圆桌会议和普选的事件中的关键作用。虽然其他研究强调了团结运动在1980-1981年实现公民社会方面所起的作用，但杜塞特认为，在1980年代中后期建立真正的公民社会的过程中，独立的媒体是必不可少的约束因素。
根据对地下出版物的彻底调查和对1976-1989年间重要活动人士的采访，杜塞特展示了独立媒体是如何植根于波兰对外国占领进行有组织抵抗的悠久传统的，重塑了这一传统，接受非暴力的公民抵抗，同时创建了一个网络，从一小群持不同政见者演变为一个广泛的反对派运动，有着跨国联系和数百万同情者。它是抵抗共产主义和重建波兰民主社会的激励力量。
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Books Are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism
Much attention has been given to the role of intellectual dissidents, labor, and religion in the historic overthrow of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Books Are Weapons presents the first English-language study of that which connected them—the press. Siobhan Doucette provides a comprehensive examination of the Polish opposition’s independent, often underground, press and its crucial role in the events leading to the historic Round Table and popular elections of 1989. While other studies have emphasized the role that the Solidarity movement played in bringing about civil society in 1980-1981, Doucette instead argues that the independent press was the essential binding element in the establishment of a true civil society during the mid- to late-1980s.
Based on a thorough investigation of underground publications and interviews with important activists of the period from 1976-1989, Doucette shows how the independent press, rooted in the long Polish tradition of well-organized resistance to foreign occupation, reshaped this tradition to embrace nonviolent civil resistance while creating a network that evolved from a small group of dissidents into a broad opposition movement with cross-national ties and millions of sympathizers. It was the galvanizing force in the resistance to communism and the rebuilding of Poland’s democratic society.
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