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Author McRae, Robert Grant, author.

Title Resistance and revolution : Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia / Rob McRae
Published Ottawa [Ont.] : Carleton University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 1968-1988: The Emergence of Public Protest -- 2 Glasnost�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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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
Notes Includes index
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Print version record
Subject Havel, Václav
SUBJECT Havel, Václav fast
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Leadership.
Politics and government
SUBJECT Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1989-1992. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001925
Subject Czechoslovakia
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773574045
0773574042
Other Titles On cover and spine: Resistance & revolution
Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia