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Resistance and revolution : Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia / Rob McRae.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McRae, Robert Grant.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Havel, Václav.
- Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--Politics and government--1989-1992.
- Physical Description:
- 331 p. : ill.
- Other Title:
- On cover and spine: Resistance & revolution
- Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa [Ont.] : Carleton University Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 totalitarianism, with the future of Czechoslovakia there for the making.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1968-1988: The Emergence of Public Protest
- Glasnost—Not!
- Living in Truth
- Jan Palach
- The Political Trials
- The Symposium
- The Resistance Spreads
- A Few Sentences
- Writers East and West
- Means and Ends
- The East German Exodus
- The Symposium II
- Too Little, Too Late
- Czech Pens
- The Twilight of Communism
- The November 17 Massacre
- The Student Strike
- The Birth of Civic Forum
- Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me!
- A Kingdom for a Balcony
- The Return of History
- Workers Unite!
- A Communist Intermezzo
- Alexander Dubcek
- The General Strike
- The Regime Strikes Back
- The Government of National Understanding
- Thomas Bata’s Homecoming
- The Campaign for President
- The Deconstruction of Communism
- President Havel
- The Canadian Connection
- Human Bridges
- A New/Old Political System
- The Economic Challenge
- The Rebirth of Party Politics
- Constitutional Crisis
- Dubcek Remembers
- Slovak Nationalism
- An Independent Foreign Policy
- The Campaign
- The First Free Elections
- The End of Czechoslovakism
- The National Awakening
- 1968 and 1989
- Hello Good-bye
- The Disappearing Country
- The Next Revolution
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-7404-2
- OCLC:
- 923230259
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