Velvet Revolutions: An Oral History of Czech Society

ISBN-13: 9780197546277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 266 str.

Miroslav Vanek

Recenzje

In Velvet Revolutions, Miroslav Vanek and Pavel Mücke posit a worthwhile question: why do so many people today favorably contrast the Communist past to today? We do not have an oral history of communism in any country in Eastern Europe. But this book does more than filling a niche: it offers a new perspective on that era. Today, readers who want to know 'What was Communism like?' do not have many options. This book provides us with an innovative study of the way Communism and postcommunism have been experienced and remembered as value systems.

O autorze

Miroslav Vanek is Director of the Department of Oral History and Contemporary History at Charles University in Prague and President of the International Oral History Assocation. Pavel Mücke is Lecturer of Oral History and Contemporary History at Charles University in Prague.