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

• Autore: Fawn Rick
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, : Harwood Academic, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 943.7105
• Soggetto geografico: Czech Republic History; Czech Republic Politics and government 1993-
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: The Czech Republic
• ISBN: 1-135-28729-5; 981-261-140-1; 1-135-28730-9; 1-280-05562-6; 0-203-64354-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809917103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Postcommunist states and nations.