In 1989 this writer took the lead in forming the Civic Forum which opposed Czechoslovakia's Communist regime
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Civic Forum - Wikipedia  The Civic Forum (Czech: Obansk frum, OF) was a political movement in the Czech part of ... In December 1989, Jan Urban became the Forum's chairman after Havel's ... of foreign affairs Ji Dienstbier, formed the Civic Movement (Obansk hnut). Klaus stated that the two parties would rule as a coalition until the 1992...
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Coming to Terms with the Communist Past: The Czech Case from a ...  Is retroactive justice a threat to the rule of law and to political stability or is a clear ... of the pre-1989 past, and enjoys the consistent support of part of Czech society. ... It is quite clear that exiting from communism in Czechoslovakia after 20 years of ... It was more the restraint, the self-limitation of the Civic Forum leaders who...
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Velvet Revolution - Wikipedia  The Velvet Revolution (Czech: sametov revoluce) or Gentle Revolution (Slovak: nen revolcia) was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia. The period of upheaval and transition took place from November 17 to December 29, 1989 ... The end result was the end of 41 years of Stalinist rule in Czechoslovakia,...
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Articles about Civic Forum Organization by Date - Page 2 - latimes  YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsCivic Forum Organization ... December 16, 1989 | DAVID LAUTER, TIMES STAFF WRITER ... Czechoslovakia's new foreign minister, a non-Communist, declared Thursday that the ... Prague Cheers a New Regime : East Bloc: A Czechoslovak coalition government is sworn in.
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The Velvet Revolution: A Peaceful End to Communism in ...  Czechoslovakia's Communist Party took efforts to prevent Gorbachev's reforms from being enacted ... Havel, an author, playwright, and poet, used his talent to craft the movement's ... On November 19, 1989, Havel founded the Civic Forum. ... to unite the Czechoslovak opposition in order to overthrow the Communist regime.
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Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968 - Office of the Historian  On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of ... since the early 1960s, and cracks were emerging in the communist consensus as workers ... In April, the Czech Government issued a formal plan for further reforms, ... of Prague, other major cities, and communication and transportation links.
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A Czech Playwright's Years in Prison : LETTERS TO OLGA by ...  Apr 3, 1988 ... Havel is the best-known Czech playwright, a dissident in his country many years before the Prague Spring, and a leader in the protest movement ever since. ... began a prison term that ended in 1983 after his illness brought in appeals from ... some notion of the portrait that Havel's letters to his wife convey.
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Imre Nagy - Wikipedia  Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who was appointed Chairman of the Council .... In 1989, Imre Nagy was rehabilitated and his remains reburied on the 31st anniversary of his execution in the same plot after a funeral organised in part by opponents of the country's Stalinist regime. Over 100,000 people are...
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The Velvet Divorce  January 1, 1993  Prague Blog - Prague Guide  Jan 1, 1993 ... After all, the country had been democratic for 20 years during the First Republic (1918-1938). ... exist, and on January 1, 1993, the two independent states of the Czech ... only 37 percent of Slovaks and 36 percent of Czechs favored a split. ... to separate the Czech and Slovak republics into individual states.
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Nonfiction Book Review: The Art of the Impossible: Politics as ...  Playwright, revolutionary, former political prisoner and now president of the Czech Republic, Havel is probably one of the few world leaders ... This collection of 35. ... The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice ... On Tolerance: Czech Writers  Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990  Open Letters: Selected...
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Vclav Havel - Wikipedia  Vclav Havel was a Czech writer, philosopher, political dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the last president of Czechoslovakia. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republic (19932003) after the CzechSlovak split. .... Short of money, he took a job in a brewery, an experience he wrote about in...
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US-Ukraine Business Council  On Feb 25, 1956 Khrushchev's speech condemned Stalin's personality cult. By Yury Filippov, RIA ... to admit that communism (and its leaders) could make mistakes. .... The speech wasn't a secret for long, as the party had it printed in booklet form and ...... and the full text - not published in the Soviet Union until 1989 - was
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Vclav Havel - Wikipedia  Vclav Havel was a Czech writer, philosopher, political dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to ... After participating in Prague Spring and being blacklisted after the invasion of Czechoslovakia ..... life and ideas", including a public "conversation" with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. .... These things were not popular either.
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Prague Spring | Prague Life - Local Life  Does nobody mention the refusal of Romania to participate in that invasion of Czechoslovakia? ... We did not ask the Warsaw Pact troops to come and help us. ... I was only 16 in 1968 and didn't begin to visit the former Czechoslovakia until 1985. ... fore dissent and then risked their lives to escape the country that they loved,...
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Vclav Havel Essay - Havel, Vclav - eNotes.com  Throughout the early 1960s Czechoslovakia had been experiencing a ... you a great deal," plays dedicated to Havel and written in protest of his imprisonment. ... 1993, Havel was elected president of the Czech Republic, a position he still holds. ... Havel's 1984 work, Largo Desolato, is a semi-autobiographical play about a...
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Prague Spring - Wikipedia  The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubek was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of ... After the invasion, Czechoslovakia entered a period of normalization:...
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For Love of Contry - Scribd  Democracy Forum operates at a level ofliteracy and respon. - sibility which is all too rare in our time." -John Kenneth Galbraith Other books in the...
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Czechoslovakia - New World Encyclopedia  Jan 22, 2015 ... 1989-1992, Vclav Havel ... On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and ... Satisfaction among individual ethnic groups within the new state .... in the metropolis soon spilled over to other parts of the country. ... the two countries when Slovakia openly challenged President Havel's...
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Chapter 19 - Docushare  Hungary and Romania were also forced to accept communist government and ... to topple him but failed) and pursued his own brand of Communism for three decades. ... Mao Zedong lead the Communists in China and Jiang Jieshi led the nationalists. ... The Long March, a 6000 mile trek (1934-35) by the communists under...
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The Long March: For Communist China, It Is the Central Epic - The ...  Feb 22, 1972 ... The author of the book The Long March 1935, from which the following excerpt ... The Red Army. fears not the trials of the Long March ... So Mao Tsetung wrote in one of the poems which he composed during the Long March. One of the principal concerns of the political leadership in Peking today is to try...
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Milan Kundera | Czech writer | Britannica.com  Jun 22, 2015 ... Milan Kundera, (born April 1, 1929, Brno, Czechoslovakia [now in ... occupation of the country he refused to admit his political errors and ... in 1979 the Czech government stripped him of his citizenship. In the 1970s and '80s his novels, including Valk na rozlouenou (1976; Farewell Waltz; Eng. trans.