Miroslav Vanek, Pavel Mücke

Velvet Revolutions

An Oral History of Czech Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780199342723
• ISBN-10: 0199342725
• Artikelnr.: 47867674

Autorenporträt

MV: director, Department of Oral History and Contemporary History, Charles University, Prague, and president, International Oral History Assocation PM: lecturer, Department of Oral History and Contemporary History, Charles University, Prague

Inhaltsangabe

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