On the Czech periphery: Communist-era hippie communes, samizdat, and post-’89 zine culture

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:56:09 +0200On the Czech periphery: Communist-era hippie communes, samizdat, and post-’89 zine culturehttps://english.radio.cz/czech-periphery-communist-era-hippie-communes-samizdat-and-post-89-zine-culture-8130496© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalTranslator, literary scholar and historical sociologist Martin Tharp’s current research focuses on the working-class counterculture of post-1968 Czechoslovakia. He finds that – dissident groups such as Charter 77 aside – the “underground” social movement comprised a diffuse and generalised sentiment of an “emotive-artistic resistance to state cultural control” and censorship.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/fanziny.jpg?timestamp=1728648409 On the Czech periphery: Communist-era hippie communes, samizdat, and post-’89 zine culture https://english.radio.cz/czech-periphery-communist-era-hippie-communes-samizdat-and-post-89-zine-culture-8130496 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9