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| ISBN: | 9780203643549
0203643542
9789058230430
9058230430
9789058230447
9058230449
9786610055623
6610055629
9781135287306
1135287309
9781135287252
1135287252
9781135287290
1135287295
0203643542
9058230430
9058230449
1280055626
9781280055621
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Throughout the twentieth century Czechoslovakia has captured the international imagination. The Allied betrayal of the country to Nazi Germany in 1938 produced the enduring symbol of Munich as naive appeasement of aggression. The wholesale reform of Soviet communism in the Prague Spring of 1968 won western support, and sympathy when it was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks. The fierce Communist regime installed thereafter was brought down almost magically in 1989. Czechoslovakia added to international political vocabulary the term "Velvet Revolution", and the velvet metaphor characterized much of the country's path-breaking postcommunist transformation and its peaceful dissolution in 1992." "In separate chapters on history, politics, economics, foreign relations and the new Czech national identity, this book not only applauds the successes of the Czech Republic since 1993, but also uncovers the frayed edges of this velvet nation."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Fawn, Rick. Czech Republic. Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Harwood Academic, ©2000
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