Fallen Walls - Prisoners of Conscience in South Africa and Czechoslovakia

Informationen zum Autor Lynda Gilfillan Klappentext This collection of prison writings straddles two continents! and compares and contrasts the political struggles that gave birth to two vibrant new democracies of the twenty-first century: South Africa and the Cech Republic. The triumph over decades of suffering endured by the ordinary citiens of these two countries is symbolied by their leaders! Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel. Fallen Walls focuses on the experiences of ordinary prisoners of conscience. It records three voices from the apartheid-era cells of Robben Island and three voices from communist-era prisons in Cechoslovakia. There are striking similarities as well as differences between the two sets of stories. Zusammenfassung This collection of prison writings straddles two continents, and compares and contrasts the political struggles that gave birth to two vibrant new democracies of the twenty-first century: South Africa and the Czech Republic Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword, Prelude, 1. Setting the Stage: The Cold War, 2. The Context of the South African Narratives, 3. Joseph Faniso Mati: The Organizer, 4. Johnson Malcomess Mgabela: The Strategist, 5. Monde Colin Mkunqwana: The Analyst, 6. The Context of the Czech Narratives, 7. Jirí Mesicki: The “Mukl”, 8. Lola Škodová: The Idealist, 9. Jirí Stránský: The Rebel, Postscript, Glossary

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• Authors: Jan K. Coetzee, Jan K. Gilfilan Coetzee, Linda Gilfilan, Linda Gilfillan, Lynda Gilfillan, Václav Havel, Otakar Hulec
• Assisted by: Linda Gilfilan (Editor), Lynda Gilfillan (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2004
• EAN: 9780765802293
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0229-3
• No. of pages: 195
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Czech Republic, Republic of South Africa, Czechia, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution