The Czechoslovak Review
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Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
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Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
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Author | : Mary Heimann |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
ISBN | : 9780300141474 |
A revisionist history, this volume sets out to debunk many of the myths about Czechoslovakia.
Author | : Historický ústav (Československá akademie věd) |
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
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This is an hour-by-hour account of the fall of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in 1968.
Author | : Peter Hames |
Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
ISBN | : 9781904764427 |
This study of the most significant movement in post-war Central and East European cinema examines the origins and development of Czechoslovakian film during this time, as well as the political and cultural changes which influenced some of the most important works.
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Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
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Author | : Eagle Glassheim |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2017-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822981947 |
In this innovative study of the aftermath of ethnic cleansing, Eagle Glassheim examines the transformation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland from the end of the Second World War, through the Cold War, and into the twenty-first century. Prior to their expulsion in 1945, ethnic Germans had inhabited the Sudeten borderlands for hundreds of years, with deeply rooted local cultures and close, if sometimes tense, ties with Bohemia's Czech majority. Cynically, if largely willingly, harnessed by Hitler in 1938 to his pursuit of a Greater Germany, the Sudetenland's three million Germans became the focus of Czech authorities in their retributive efforts to remove an alien ethnic element from the body politic—and claim the spoils of this coal-rich, industrialized area. Yet, as Glassheim reveals, socialist efforts to create a modern utopia in the newly resettled "frontier" territories proved exceedingly difficult. Many borderland regions remained sparsely populated, peppered with dilapidated and abandoned houses, and hobbled by decaying infrastructure. In the more densely populated northern districts, coalmines, chemical works, and power plants scarred the land and spewed toxic gases into the air. What once was a diverse religious, cultural, economic, and linguistic "contact zone," became, according to many observers, a scarred wasteland, both physically and psychologically. Glassheim offers new perspectives on the struggles of reclaiming ethnically cleansed lands in light of utopian dreams and dystopian realities—brought on by the uprooting of cultures, the loss of communities, and the industrial degradation of a once-thriving region. To Glassheim, the lessons drawn from the Sudetenland speak to the deep social traumas and environmental pathologies wrought by both ethnic cleansing and state-sponsored modernization processes that accelerated across Europe as a result of the great wars of the twentieth century.
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Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
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Author | : Jonathan L. Owen |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0857451278 |
The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. The close analysis of selected films, ranging from the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains to the aesthetically challenging Daisies, is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde and a discussion of the films' immediate cultural and political background.
Author | : Ludvík Vaculík |
Publisher | : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8024638525 |
It’s 1979 in Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing restoration of repressive communism known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his last novel, and even longer since he wrote the 1968 manifesto, "Two Thousand Words,” which the Soviet Union used as one of the pretexts for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of a friend, Vaculík begins to keep a diary: "a book about things, people and events.” Fifty-four weeks later, what Vaculík has written is a unique mixture of diary, dream journal, and outright fiction – an inverted roman à clef in which the author, his family, his mistresses, the secret police and leading figures of the Czech underground play major roles.