Resistance and Revolution

Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia

By Rob McRae
Categories: Political Science
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773574045, 344 pages, June 1997
Paperback : 9780886293161, June 1997

Description

Under constant pressure from the regime, and frequently jailed or imprisoned for their efforts, the signatories of Charter 77 went on to lead the resistance and spearhead a revolution: the Velvet Revolution of 1989. For a time it seemed as if a philosopher-king had overturned the forces of totalitarianism, with the future of Czechoslovakia there for the making.