02821oam 2200613I 450 991045066960332120200520144314.01-135-28730-91-280-05562-60-203-64354-210.4324/9780203643549 (CKB)1000000000254514(EBL)201170(OCoLC)437062786(SSID)ssj0000278456(PQKBManifestationID)11195203(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278456(PQKBWorkID)10247010(PQKB)11423348(MiAaPQ)EBC201170(PPN)198455178(Au-PeEL)EBL201170(CaPaEBR)ebr10094105(CaONFJC)MIL5562(OCoLC)84375181(EXLCZ)99100000000025451420180331d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Czech Republic a nation of velvet /Rick FawnAmsterdam, The Netherlands :Harwood Academic,2000.1 online resource (193 p.)Postcommunist states and nationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-203-68338-2 90-5823-043-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.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.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...Postcommunist states and nations.Czech RepublicHistoryCzech RepublicPolitics and government1993-Electronic books.943.7105Fawn Rick.619300FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910450669603321The Czech Republic2133397UNINA