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-  2018 

In Search of the Greengrocer (Jak vykládat zeliná?e)

DOI: 10.1177/0888325417742493

Keywords: Communism,unofficial culture,teaching contemporary history,Václav Havel,Power of the Powerless

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The author reflects on her experience teaching present-day students about life under totalitarianism. Forty years of Communism is a long time; attitudes and opinions matured and shifted—even (if we examine Havel’s essay) those of his greengrocer. And what should be the focus of the teaching: the terror, the heroism, or the everyday business of living? How can one convey the different levels and subtleties of a world that history presents in black and white? The past could disappear in a hazy memory, but young people, once provoked, ask direct and practical questions that do connect the past to the present

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