Czechoslovakia

The Velvet Revolution and Beyond

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• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137079756
• Print ISBN:
  9780312230685

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.

Table of contents

• 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 Mečiar
• Conclusion - Prospects for the EU
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index