Victims of Political Repression in Communist Czechoslovakia - Vaclav Havel, Josef Bryks, Franti Ek Fajtl, the Plastic People of the Universe (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Vaclav Havel, Josef Bryks, Franti ek Fajtl, the Plastic People of the Universe, Jan Palach, Milada Horakova, Jan Pato ka, Basil Hopko, Vratislav Brabenec, Rudolf Pernicky, Pavol Peter Gojdi, Memorial to the Victims of Communism, Jan Zahradni ek, Zdenka Cecilia Schelingova, Rudolf Beran, t pan Trochta, Bohumil Lau man, Zavi Kalandra, Heliodor Pika. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Vaclav Havel (Czech pronunciation: ) (born 5 October 1936 in Czechoslovakia) is a Czech playwright, essayist, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (198992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (19932003). He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. He has received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. He was also voted 4th in Prospect Magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism. Beginning in the 1960s, his work turned to focus on the politics of Czechoslovakia. After the Prague Spring, he became increasingly active. In 1977, his involvement with the human rights manifesto Charter 77 brought him international fame as the leader of the opposition in Czechoslovakia; it also led to his imprisonment. The 1989 "Velvet Revolution" launched Havel into the presidency. In this role he led Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic to multi-party democracy. His thirteen years in office saw radical change in his nation, including its split with Slovakia, which Havel opposed, its accession into NATO and start of the negotiations for membership in the European Union, which was attai...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=63299