LEADER 02861nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910809917103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-28729-5 010 $a981-261-140-1 010 $a1-135-28730-9 010 $a1-280-05562-6 010 $a0-203-64354-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203643549 035 $a(CKB)1000000000254514 035 $a(EBL)201170 035 $a(OCoLC)437062786 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278456 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195203 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278456 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247010 035 $a(PQKB)11423348 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL201170 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10094105 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL5562 035 $a(OCoLC)84375181 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC201170 035 $a(PPN)198455178 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000254514 100 $a20000321d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Czech Republic $ea nation of velvet /$fRick Fawn 210 $aAmsterdam, The Netherlands $cHarwood Academic$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 1 $aPostcommunist states and nations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-203-68338-2 311 $a90-5823-043-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $aCzechoslovakia has captured the nation's imagination throughout the twentieth century. The Allied betrayal of the country to Nazi Germany in 1938 was to demonstrate the appalling consequences of naive appeasement of aggression. The wholesale reform of Soviet communism in the Prague Spring of 1968 won western support, and sympathy when it was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks. The fierce communist regime thereafter was brought down almost magically in 1989. Czechoslovakia added to the international political vocabulary the term, 'Velvet Revolution', and the velvet metaphor has characterised much of... 410 0$aPostcommunist states and nations. 607 $aCzech Republic$xHistory 607 $aCzech Republic$xPolitics and government$y1993- 676 $a943.7105 700 $aFawn$b Rick$0619300 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809917103321 996 $aThe Czech Republic$94119007 997 $aUNINA