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Resistance and revolution : Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia /

Under constant pressure from the regime, and frequently jailed or imprisoned for their efforts, the signatories of Charter 77 went on to lead the resistance and spearhead a revolution: the Velvet Revolution of 1989. For a time it seemed as if a philosopher-king had overturned the forces of totalitar...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McRae, Robert Grant (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa [Ont.] : Carleton University Press, ©1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1 1968-1988: The Emergence of Public Protest
  • 2 Glasnostâ€?Not!
  • 3 Living in Truth
  • 4 Jan Palach
  • 5 The Political Trials
  • 6 The Symposium
  • 7 The Resistance Spreads
  • 8 A Few Sentences
  • 9 Writers East and West
  • 10 Means and Ends
  • 11 The East German Exodus
  • 12 The Symposium II
  • 13 Too Little, Too Late
  • 14 Czech Pens
  • 15 The Twilight of Communism
  • 16 The November 17 Massacre
  • 17 The Student Strike
  • 18 The Birth of Civic Forum
  • 19 Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!20 A Kingdom for a Balcony
  • 21 The Return of History
  • 22 Workers Unite!
  • 23 A Communist Intermezzo
  • 24 Alexander Dubcek
  • 25 The General Strike
  • 26 The Regime Strikes Back
  • 27 The Government of National Understanding
  • 28 Thomas Bata's Homecoming
  • 29 The Campaign for President
  • 30 The Deconstruction of Communism
  • 31 President Havel
  • 32 The Canadian Connection
  • 33 Human Bridges
  • 34 A New/Old Political System
  • 35 The Economic Challenge
  • 36 The Rebirth of Party Politics
  • 37 Constitutional Crisis38 Dubcek Remembers
  • 39 Slovak Nationalism
  • 40 An Independent Foreign Policy
  • 41 The Campaign
  • 42 The First Free Elections
  • 43 The End of Czechoslovakism
  • 44 The National Awakening
  • 45 1968 and 1989
  • 46 Hello Good-bye
  • 47 The Disappearing Country
  • Postscript: The Next Revolution
  • Index
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