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Resistance and Revolution

Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia

by (author) Rob McRae

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 1997
Category
General, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773574045
    Publish Date
    Jun 1997
    List Price
    $34.95

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Under constant pressure from the regime, and frequently jailed or imprisoned for their efforts, the signatories of Charter 77 went on to lead the resistance and spearhead a revolution: the Velvet Revolution of 1989. For a time it seemed as if a philosopher-king had overturned the forces of totalitarianism, with the future of Czechoslovakia there for the making.

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