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en-wikipedia-org-1549		Civil society - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5996	620	57	With the rise of a distinction between monarchical autonomy and public law, the term then gained currency to denote the corporate estates (Ständestaat) of a feudal elite of land-holders as opposed to the powers exercised by the prince.[8] It had a long history in state theory, and was revived with particular force in recent times, in Eastern Europe, where dissidents such as Václav Havel as late as in the 1990s employed it to denote the sphere of civic associations threatened by the intrusive holistic state-dominated regimes of Communist Eastern Europe.[9] The first post-modern usage of civil society as denoting political opposition stems from writings of Aleksander Smolar in 1978–79.[10] However the term was not in use by Solidarity labor union in 1980–1981.[10]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1549.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1549.txt