Resistance and Revolution : Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1968- 1988: The Emergence of Public Protest -- Glasnost-Not! -- Living in Truth -- Jan Palach -- The Political Trials -- The Symposium -- The Resistance Spreads -- A Few Sentences -- Writers East and West -- Means and Ends -- The East German Exodus -- The Symposium II -- Too Little, Too Late -- Czech Pens -- The Twilight of Communism -- The November 17 Massacre -- The Student Strike -- The Birth of Civic Forum -- Don't Start the Revolution Without Me -- A Kingdom for a Balcony -- The Return of History -- Workers Unite ! -- A Communist Intermezzo -- Alexander Dubcek -- The General Strike -- The Regime Strikes Back -- The Government of National Understanding -- Thomas Bata's Homecoming -- The Campaign for President -- The Deconstruction of Communism -- President Havel -- The Canadian Connection -- Human Bridges -- A New/Old Political System -- The Economic Challenge -- The Rebirth of Party Politics -- Constitutional Crisis -- Dubcek Remembers -- Slovak Nationalism -- An Independent Foreign Policy -- The Campaign -- The First Free Elections -- The End of "Czechoslovakism -- The National Awakening -- 1968 and 1989 -- Hello Good-bye -- The Disappearing Country -- Postscript: The Next Revolution -- Index.

This is the story of a special time and some extraordinary people. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the architectural wonder of Prague became the setting for some of the harshest communist repression in the Cold War. Yet this bleak period produced an unusual cast of characters who decided to stake their lives in the defence of human dignity. Vaclav Havel was their leader.

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