Velvet revolutions. An oral history of Czech society

Velvet revolutions. An oral history of Czech society / miroslav Vanek ; Pavel Mücke.

This book investigates how values such as freedom, work, family, free time, and politics changed in Czech society in the two decades before and after the November 1989 Velvet Revolution. Miroslav Vanek and Pavel M?cke use public opinion polls as well as 300 interviews with Czech citizens to create a...

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Main Author: Vanek, Miroslav
Other Authors: Mücke, Pavel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Series:Oxford oral history series.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Communism > Social aspects > Czechoslovakia > History.
Post-communism > Czech Republic > History.
Interviews > Czech Republic.
Social values > Czech Republic > History.
Social change > Czech Republic > History.
Oral history > Czech Republic.
Communism > Social aspects
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Interviews
Oral history
Post-communism
Social change
Social conditions
Social values
Czechoslovakia > History > 1945-1992.
Czech Republic > History > 1993-
Czech Republic > Social conditions.
Czechoslovakia > History > Velvet Revolution, 1989 > Influence.
Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
History
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Summary:This book investigates how values such as freedom, work, family, free time, and politics changed in Czech society in the two decades before and after the November 1989 Velvet Revolution. Miroslav Vanek and Pavel M?cke use public opinion polls as well as 300 interviews with Czech citizens to create a multi-layered view of Czech history before 1989 and during the subsequent period of democratic transformation.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages)
ISBN:9780199342730
0199342733
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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