Czechoslovakia
The Velvet Revolution and Beyond
Published on 30. April 2016
X, 204 pages
978-1-137-07975-6 (ISBN)
Description
A decade ago, playwright dissident Václav Havel led an almost bloodless revolution against Czechoslovakia's hardline communist regime. In the years that followed, the country split apart into two independent Czech and Slovak states, each taking radically different paths to reform. This book examines the core issues at work in the last decade, focusing on the political, economic, and philosophical underpinnings of the reform process.
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09/2000
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Robin H. E. Shepherd has been living, working, and studying in Eastern Europe for most of the last decade.
Content
- Cover
- Content
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 Building the State
- 2 The Cornrnunists Take Power
- 3 Havel - Power to the Powerless
- 4 Politics After Cornrnunisrn
- 5 The Econorny - Capitalisrn without Property
- 6 Civilising Society
- 7 The Velvet Divorce
- 8 Surviving Meciar
- Conclusion - Prospects for the EU
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
