Czech Writers and Politics, 1945-1969
Author: Alfred French
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
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A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945
Author: Hans Renner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-08-11
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1000962334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1989, A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945 is a comprehensive account of Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, tracing events from 1945 to 1990. The author focuses on the last twenty years in particular, when the Prague Spring offered a brief period of liberalization, but was followed by harder times, with the hope of change fading, and society becoming paralyzed. Dr. Renner describes vividly the country’s fortunes under the Soviet rule of Stalin and Brezhnev, and how it pioneered the policy of glasnost during the Prague Spring of 1968. The book concludes with a special look at the influence of Gorbachev’s glasnost on the regime of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Renner combines a chronological overview with a passionate yet scholarly discussion of underlying political, economic, and cultural issues and developments, making this book invaluable as an authoritative and lucid account of Czechoslovak history, as well as an explanation of the role this country and in events played in the shaping of modern Europe.
The Czech Reader
Author: Jan Bažant
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010-12-13
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0822347946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrances Starn is a writer living in Berkeley, California. --Book Jacket.
The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Author: William Mahoney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-02-18
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis survey of Czech and Slovak history traces the development of two neighboring peoples through the creation of a common Czechoslovakian state in 1918 to the founding of the independent Czech and Slovak Republics in 1993 and beyond. The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia charts historical developments in the two nations to the opening decade of the 21st century. The book begins with an overview of the geography, climate, people, economy, and government of both the Czech and Slovak republics. Subsequent chapters offer a chronologically organized survey of historical events, trends, ideas, and people. Starting with the early Slavic settlements around the 5th century AD, the book explores Czech and Slovak history through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Early Modern eras, the Enlightenment, and the age of nationalism and revolution. Chapters on the 20th century include discussion of the World Wars, the interwar Czechoslovak state, the Communist decades, the Prague Spring, and the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The story is brought up to date with insights into developments in the independent Czech and Slovak republics since 1993.
Writers Under Siege
Author: Jiri Holy
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2010-08-09
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1836242387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn history that presents a canvas of post-war Czech literary developments within the cultural and political context of the times. It provides information about the many English-language translations from Czech literature, and the circumstances in which these translations came about.
Milan Kundera
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 143811334X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of critical essays about the work of Milan Kundera.
Censorship
Author: Derek Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001-12-01
Total Pages: 6858
ISBN-13: 1136798633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Avant-garde to New Wave
Author: Jonathan L. Owen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0857451278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. The close analysis of selected films, ranging from the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains to the aesthetically challenging Daisies, is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde and a discussion of the films' immediate cultural and political background.
From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest
Author: Ewa Mazierska
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1782384871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed system, containing elements of both socialism and capitalism, and from the 1980s on the whole of Europe, albeit at an uneven speed, followed the neoliberal agenda. This book examines how the economic systems of the East and West impacted labor by focusing on the representation of work in European cinema. Using a Marxist perspective, it compares the situation of workers in Western and Eastern Europe as represented in both auteurist and popular films, including those of Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrzej Wajda, DušanMakavejev, Jerzy Skolimowski, the Dardenne Brothers, Ulrich Seidl and many others.
Franz Fühmann: Innovation and Authenticity
Author: Dennis Tate
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-18
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9004654623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first full-length study of the life and works of Franz Fühmann (1922-1984) to be published in English. It provides a complete reassessment of his importance as a prose-writer, informed by the extensive corpus of Fühmann's writing which has only appeared posthumously or is now accessible in the archives of the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin. Dennis Tate argues that, from the middle 1950s onwards, Fühmann's prose writing is both stylistically innovative and committed to the authentic representation of his experience, thereby challenging the conventional wisdom that little writing of international significance could be produced in the ideological context of the GDR until Honecker introduced his `no taboos' cultural policy in 1971. Fühmann's widely praised later texts (ranging from the autobiographical Zweiundzwanzig Tage oder Die Hälfte des Lebens and Vor Feuerschlünden to mythical and satirical short stories such as `Marsyas' and `Drei nackte Männer') can now be seen as the culmination of an impressive creative development rather than as the result of a late conversion to literary truthfulness. The volume will be of interest to students and teachers of post-1945 German literature as well as to general readers aware of the vitality of Central European culture throughout the period of East-West ideological division.
