Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder
Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves?
Written in 1978, Václav Havel’s meditation on political dissent – the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it – would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy.
'Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra
- ISBN10 178487504X
- ISBN13 9781784875046
- Publish Date 27 September 2018 (first published 26 September 1985)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Vintage Classics
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 176
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9781784875046