Author : Eric Stein
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2000-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472086283
DIVDescribes the peaceful breakup of the Czechoslovak Federation /div
Author : Oldřich Dědek
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This work examines the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The emphasis is on the economic side of the process, and the economic history which preceded the split is analyzed. The original policy measures adopted to minimize the dissolution shocks are described, as are the recent post-split trends in both the successor economies. This work aims to provide a detailed insight into the process of the split and to serve as a source of knowledge in today's world of growing nationalism.
Author : Abby Innes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300090635
Analyzes the causes, process, and consequences of Czechoslovakia's 1993 separation into the new independent states of Czech and Slovakia.
Author : Rick Fawn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135287295
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 the country's path-breaking postcommunist transformation and its peaceful break-up in 1993. In separate chapters on history, politics, economics, foreign relations and the new Czech identity, this book not only applauds the successes of the Czech Republic since 1993, but also uncovers the frayed edges of the velvet nation.
Author : Igor Lukes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : 0195102665
A diplomatic history of events leading up to the Munich crisis in 1938 in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland. The book aims to integrate a full understanding of the Czech role with wider events.
Author : Jarom¡r Navr til
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789639116153
"In addition to revealing the events surrounding the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this is the first book to document a Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain. It is based on unprecedented access to the previously closed archives of each member of the Warsaw Pact, as well as once highly classified American documents from the National Security Council, CIA, and other intelligence agencies." "Presented in a highly readable volume, the book offers top-level documents from Kremlin Politburo meetings, multilateral sessions of the Warsaw Pact leading up to the decision to invade, transcripts of KGB-recorded telephone conversations between Leonid Brezhnev and Alexander Dubcek." "To provide a historical and political context, the editors have prepared essays to introduce each section of the volume. A chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further background information for the reader." "The editors have a unique perspective to offer to foreign audiences since they are members of the commission appointed by Vaclav Havel to investigate the events of 1967-1970."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Guy Lachapelle
Publisher : PUM
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2760617823
The International Political Science Association (IPSA) attempted to seek theoretical explanations for the established and emerging forms of political and economic partnerships. This is the result of these efforts, following a roundtable organized by IPSA in Quebec City in 1998.
Author : Robert A. Young
Publisher : IIGR, Queen's University
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : 0889115710
Author : Ladislav Holy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521555845
When Ladislav Holy precipitately left Czechoslovakia for the UK in 1968 he was already one of the leading anthropologists in Central Europe. In the following decades he made important field studies in Africa. Since 1986 he has been engaged in research in the Czech Republic, and he brings to this timely study of national identity the skills of a seasoned researcher, a cosmopolitan perspective, and the insights of an insider. Drawing on historical and literary sources as well as ethnography, he analyses Czech discourses on national identity. He argues that there were specifically 'Czech' aspects to the communist regime and to the 'velvet revolution', and paying particular attention to symbolic representations of what it means to be Czech, he explores how notions of Czech identity were involved in the debates surrounding the fall of communism, and the emergence of a new social system.
Author : Michael Kraus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780847690213
This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different approaches and perspectives to bear on the twin problems of democratic transitions in multinational societies and ethnic separatism and its origins. The blend of analysis and insider experiences will make this book invaluable for all concerned with nationalism and ethnicity, democratization, and transitions in Eastern Europe.
