Making History - Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989

Informationen zum Autor Michael Long is associate professor of Russian and director of Slavic and East European Studies at Baylor University. Klappentext Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989 brings together the personal narratives of eleven former dissidents who, though close associates of VOclav Havel, operated without his international celebrity. The narratives, based on interviews conducted by the author in Prague and Berlin, relate each individual's personal experiences on topics such as growing up in Czechoslovakia, life as a dissident, the Velvet Revolution, and the achievements and failures of the Czech Republic since 1989. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Dissidence in Czechoslovakia, 1968-1989 Chapter 2 Ivan Havel Chapter 3 Vera Jirousova Chapter 4 Michael Kocab Chapter 5 Eda Kriseova Chapter 6 Daniel Kummerman Chapter 7 Dana Nemcova Chapter 8 Martin Palous Chapter 9 Jirina Siklova Chapter 10 Petruska Sustrova Chapter 11 Petr Uhl Chapter 12 Jan Urban Chapter 13 Reality Czech

Product details

• Authors: Michael Long
• Assisted by: Michael Long (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.01.2005
• EAN: 9780742536500
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3650-0
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Civil rights & citizenship, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Civics and citizenship