The Polish Solidarity movement of 1980–1981 and the Czechoslovak dissident movement both developed an original model of democracy. The dissidents sought to reconcile the tensions between the individual and the community—personal independence and engagement with public affairs—by building a pluralist, debating civic community entrenched in objective values. Calling upon on the phenomenological tradition and the interpretative frames perspective used in social movement studies, the author seeks to interrogate the intellectual roots of the dissident vision of democracy and the reasons behind one of its future interpretations, which viewed it through the lens of the republican political tradition. Drawing on the popularity and the character of the phenomenological tradition, the author explains the differences in the understanding of community in Poland and Czechoslovakia.

1980 年至 1981 年的波兰团结运动和捷克斯洛伐克持不同政见者运动都发展了一种原始的民主模式。持不同政见者试图通过建立一个以客观价值观为基础的多元化、辩论性的公民社区，来调和个人与社区之间的紧张关系——个人独立和参与公共事务。呼吁社会运动研究中使用的现象学传统和解释框架视角，作者试图询问持不同政见者对民主的看法的知识根源及其未来解释之一背后的原因，后者通过共和主义的视角看待它政治传统。借鉴现象学传统的流行和特征，