Besides Soviet records of their oppositional activity, we have very little personal information about the Green leaders due to the widespread illiteracy and spontaneous nature of their movement.

But this does not explain why "there was very little oppositional activity" in the recession of 1975-6 when unemployment and inflation were at similar levels to those of 1978.

Kurzman points out that "even as the shah arrived in Washington" for a state visit in late 1977, "his regime's partial tolerance of oppositional activity was disappearing.

According to party officials, legal organizations served as fronts for oppositional activities.

In practice, though, the law was used to not only control and contain terrorism, but to limit legitimate oppositional political activities.

It emphasized that Charter 77 is not an organization, has no statutes or permanent organs, and "does not form the basis for any oppositional political activity."

STKs became the foci around which oppositional activity turned in the early part of the conflict.

In 1960s and 1970s the company started production of heavy construction machinery, and in the 1980s, it was one of major centers of oppositional activities (see 1988 Polish strikes).

But the fine detail of his oppositional activity, involving clandestine border crossings, strange bedfellows and secret diplomatic missions, is presented here for the first time.

Due to oppositional activities he was warned by the public prosecutor and was later fired from his work.