ABSTRACT
In the middle of the 1980s when Solidarity in Poland had, despite the losses suffered during martial law, a perfectly functioning network of underground printing machines spewing 10,000 copies of the most diverse opposition literature, including weeklies, the Czechoslovak dissident journalistic culture lived in the world of "one plus 10." The greatest and most significant action of the journalistic opposition, in a Czechoslovakia of 15 million people, was the revival of the Lidove noviny (People's News) newspaper in 1987. It had been banned by the Communists for 40 years. Decades of concentrating on bare survival, and the inability to build their own organization and amass technical support, inevitably affected the style and form of Czechoslovak dissidents' reporting. All Czechoslovak dissidents, with some exceptions, ended up, at least temporarily, in high political posts and were lost from any development of independent media and journalism.
