Velvet revolutions : an oral history of Czech society

Authors:Miroslov Vaněk (Author), Pavel Mücke (Author)

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.

eBook, English, 2016

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016

Physical Description:1 onlineresurs (251 sidor)

ISBN:

9780199342730, 0199342733

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1027065866

Subjects:

Sammetsrevolutionen, Tjeckoslovakien, 1989

Tjeckien

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Print version:

Velvet revolutions.

Contents:

Acknowledgments: The Privilege of Listening to the Voices of Memory ; Introduction ; 1. I Want to be Free!: Freedom as a Fundamental Human Value ; 2. The Family under Socialism and in the Whirlwind of Transformation ; 3. Friends and the Others: How Czechs Evaluate Foreigners and Foreign Countries ; 4. Education: A Gateway to Success in Life? ; 5. From the Requirement to Work to Looking for Work ; 6. Perception of Free Time: Work, Family, and Leisure ; 7. Us and Them: Eternal Predestination? ; Conclusion ; Our Narrators ; Bibliography