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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450669603321

Autore

Fawn Rick

Titolo

The Czech Republic : a nation of velvet / / Rick Fawn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : , : Harwood Academic, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-28730-9

1-280-05562-6

0-203-64354-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Postcommunist states and nations

Disciplina

943.7105

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Czech Republic History

Czech Republic Politics and government 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1 The Legacies of History: From the Foundation to the -- Velvet Revolution and the Velvet Divorce -- 2 Framing Velvet: The Institutional Arena and Rules of -- the Game in Czech Politics -- 3 Patchwork Velvet: The Burst Bubble of the Czech -- Economic Transformation -- 4 Exporting Velvet: The Czech Republic's Foreign Policy -- 5 A Nation of Velvet? Towards a New Czech National -- Identity.

Sommario/riassunto

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...