Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts
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Vaclav Havel is one of the genuine political and moral heroes of the last half of the 20th century. A highly regarded and influential playwright in Czechoslovakia, he became the most prominent dissident leader in his country from the late 1960s until the Velvet Revolution ousted the Communist government in 1989. Since then he has served as the elected president of Czechoslovakia and, later, the Czech Republic.
Throughout the years of his struggle of harassment and imprisonment by the Communist regime and also in his later role as a world statesman, Havel has written some of the most eloquent and insightful essays of our time about such subjects as the nature of totalitarianism, the responsibilities of citizens in a democracy, and civil society... download full pdf text here
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Covers:
Authored
The Life and Death of Democracy
Violence And Democracy
Global Civil Society?
Whatever Happened to Democracy?
Vaclav Havel a Political Tragedy in Six Acts
Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions
Tom Paine, A Political Life
The Media and Democracy
Reflections on Violence
Democracy and Civil Society
Public Life and Late Capitalism
After Full Employment
Edited
Politika i strah
Civil Society: Berlin Perspectives
The Changing Nature of Democracy
The Power of the Powerless
Civil Society and Democracy
Disorganized Capitalism
Nomads of the Present
Contradictions of the Welfare State
