The Czech Republic : a nation of velvet / Rick Fawn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fawn, Rick.

Series:

Postcommunist states and nations.

Postcommunist states and nations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Czech Republic--History.

Czech Republic.

Czech Republic--Politics and government--1993-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Harwood Academic, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Czechoslovakia has captured the nation's imagination throughout the twentieth century. The Allied betrayal of the country to Nazi Germany in 1938 was to demonstrate the appalling consequences of naive appeasement of aggression. The wholesale reform of Soviet communism in the Prague Spring of 1968 won western support, and sympathy when it was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks. The fierce communist regime thereafter was brought down almost magically in 1989. Czechoslovakia added to the international political vocabulary the term, 'Velvet Revolution', and the velvet metaphor has characterised much of...

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1 The Legacies of History: From the Foundation to the

Velvet Revolution and the Velvet Divorce

2 Framing Velvet: The Institutional Arena and Rules of

the Game in Czech Politics

3 Patchwork Velvet: The Burst Bubble of the Czech

Economic Transformation

4 Exporting Velvet: The Czech Republic's Foreign Policy

5 A Nation of Velvet? Towards a New Czech National

Identity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-28729-5

981-261-140-1

1-135-28730-9

1-280-05562-6

0-203-64354-2

9780203643549

OCLC:

437062786