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Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989
by
Michael Long
In December 1989, Vaclav Havel and a relatively small group of intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the Velvet Revolution. Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989 brings together the personal narratives of eleven former dissidents who, though close associates of Ha...more
Paperback, 204 pages
Published
February 28th 2005
by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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This book is largely an oral history, composed of interviews that Long conducted with 11 Czech "dissidents" in 1998. Each of the narrators describes their own life and experiences with the dissident movement from the Prague Spring and '68 Soviet invasion, through Normalization, through the Revolution, and their reflections on the revolution 9 years later. One of the strengths of the book is that it is organized by narrator, so each chapter is based on a single interview--which serves t...more
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