Institute of Contemporary History

This collective monograph deals with environmental activism in late socialist Czechoslovakia as a specific form of civic engagement that was not identical with dissent. The authors show that ecological initiatives grew out of everyday experience, professional integrity, and care for the environment, and operated primarily in the so-called grey zone. The book connects the transnational context of the global environmental movement with local case studies from the Czech and Slovak environments.

OLŠÁKOVÁ, Doubravka – LOUČOVÁ, Petra – ČÍŽOVÁ, Júlia – ĎURČO, Michal. Disident, expert nebo aktivista? Čtyři studie k environmentálnímu aktivismu v Československu před rokem 1989. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ĆR, v.v.i., 2024. 269 s. Sešity Ústavu pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR. ISBN 978-80-7285-292-5.