Exhibition: Samizdat the Creative Power of Resistance

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The exhibition “Samizdat the Creative Power of Resistance” was prepared by the library Libri Prohibiti in cooperation with the National Library of the Czech Republic in the spring of 2014. The exhibition held in the Klementinum Gallery in Prague presented samizdat as a social phenomenon within the context of the 1970s and 1980s. Among the exhibits, the most important editions and authors of Czech samizdat literature could be found. Visitors could also learn about various ways of the production and reproduction of samizdat, and about the persecution of samizdat publishers and distributors.

Location

Klementinum 190, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
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Website

https://www.nkp.cz/o-knihovne/odborne-a-kulturni-akce/vystavy/fotogalerie-2014/samizdat-tvurci-sila-odporu-1

Starting year of event

2014

Main actors

Society of Libri Prohibiti

Author(s) of this page

Kůželová, Michaela

Event of

Czech Samizdat Collection at Libri Prohibiti

References

Národní knihovna. 2017. "Samizdat - tvůrčí síla odporu." Accessed May 15. https://www.nkp.cz/o-knihovne/odborne-a-kulturni-akce/vystavy/fotogalerie-2014/samizdat-tvurci-sila-odporu-1.

Last edited on: 2019-01-30 13:07:08