Cesta ze slepé uličky „třetího odboje“. Koncepty rezistence a studium socialistické diktatury v Československu
A Way Out of the ‘Third Resistance’ Cul de Sac: Concepts of Resistance and the Study of Socialist Dictatorship in Czechoslovakia

Summary/Abstract: This article is a response to a recent debate on resistance to state socialism in Czechoslovakia. It focuses on the methods used in contemporary Czech research on the ‘Third Resistance’. The author begins by outlining developments in historical and other research on resistance. He considers in particular works by British Marxist historians in the 1950s and 1960s, James C. Scott’s concept of ‘everyday forms of resistance’, and the Indian school of ‘Subaltern Studies’ over the next two decades. He also presents some influential typologies of resistance, with special attention paid to German research on resistance to Nazism and state socialism, American research on resistance in the Stalinist era, and controversies that emerged amongst scholars in these areas. From the perspective of this international research, he then analyzes Czech scholarship on the ‘Third Resistance’. In his conclusion, the author offers possible ways out of what he sees as the currently desolate state of research on the topic, hoping thereby to provide an impulse to the historiographical debate.

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