The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

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.