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A Prague Spring Before After

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Author : Michael Salcman
language : en
Publisher: Evening Street Press
Release Date : 2016-08-01

A Prague Spring Before After written by Michael Salcman and has been published by Evening Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with History categories.

A work of great rage, sorrow, and love, Michael Salcman’s majestic A Prague Spring tells an almost unbearable story that needs to be told over and over and never forgotten. Beginning with coldly matter-of-fact poems of family members lost to and escaping the Shoah, Salcman documents how his parents survived and met, and how he got along in Brooklyn, the glorious borough of his childhood, baseball’s Dodgers, and the Brooklyn Bridge. Finally, he doubles back to visit the country of his birth. And in a series of stunning poems, a prose piece, and a final poem to his cousin Magda, Salcman ties together past and present, and gives us one more glimpse into the soul of a survivor, two really, his older cousin, and himself. —Robert Cooperman, author of In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains, winner of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry A Prague Spring is a beautiful blend of the lyric imagination with historical and autobiographical facts. In this book, ignorance, cruelty, and murder lose. Art, and the truth, wins. —Thomas Lux, Bourne Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and author of God Particles A Prague Spring is a near-epic book of history poems, interweaving the story of Prague with the Holocaust, family deaths and survivals, a book that stuns the reader with the enormities and sorrows of Time. Salcman uses the compression of narrative, meditative and lyric poetry to “bring you looted treasures: History’s twisted snakes.” Here we find a Holocaust survivor who is “a stick leaning on a stick, / an insect on a branch” as well as the backwards-running Jewish clock of Prague (“What city tells time like Prague?”) counterpoised with Salcman’s Brooklyn: “sweet / borough of my youth, heart and lung / of life.” Kafka and Salcman's ancestors haunt the Czech capital where “a pile of dust once pushed a cart of salt and spices / on a medieval street.” The poems revisit totalitarian defenestrations, slaughters and repressions as they recount, wonder and pray, all the time knowing “the brain is a savage beast, it eats when and what / no other organ eats….” At once autobiography, history, testimonial and memorial, A Prague Spring is a revolutionary collection of important and necessary poems, confidently written and—especially with Salcman’s tonal skills—always absorbing; it is further deepened by how perfectly Lynn Silverman’s dark photographs of Prague capture that ancient city’s shadows and ghosts. —Dick Allen, Connecticut State Poet Laureate (2010-2015) and author of This Shadowy Place, Present Vanishing, and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected

Prague Spring 1968

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Author : Phil Carradice
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2019-01-30

Prague Spring 1968 written by Phil Carradice and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-30 with History categories.

A historian’s overview of Czechoslovakia’s Alexander Dubček, the Prague Spring of 1968, and the Warsaw Pact Invasion. Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia, the new Communist Party leader, Alexander Dubcek, has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it really does seem as if Dubček has judged it right. Reforms in oppressive censorship laws, improved housing, a lessening of totalitarian oppression, Dubček promises and delivers on it all. The new regime in Czechoslovakia does seek to destroy communism but it does want to choose its own political destiny. And then, on the night of 20/21 August, the Prague Spring is crushed by the Warsaw Pact invasion: 200,000 Communist troops, mostly Soviet but also Polish and East German, flood the country. The resulting protests and rallies against the invasion, mostly by young people, are violent and bloody. Hundreds die in clashes; self-immolation, in public and before the eyes of the world, brings home the horror and the depth of feeling in the Czech people. It is the end of the Prague Spring, the reformation of Czechoslovakia having ended in ruins. But despite the brutal crushing of Czech hopes and dreams, the events of 1968 lay the foundations for future change. It will take another two decades but it is, ultimately, where the unraveling of the Communist bloc begins.

The Greengrocer And His Tv

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Author : Paulina Bren
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-15

The Greengrocer And His Tv written by Paulina Bren and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-15 with History categories.

The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a televised spectacle that defined the times. The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera-like serials. In focusing on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the "normal" of normalization, to the everyday experience of late communism. The figure central to this book is the greengrocer who, in a seminal essay by Václav Havel, symbolized the ordinary citizen who acquiesced to the communist regime out of fear. Bren challenges simplistic dichotomies of fearful acquiescence and courageous dissent to dramatically reconfigure what we know, or think we know, about everyday life under communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Deftly moving between the small screen, the street, and the Central Committee (and imaginatively drawing on a wide range of sources that include television shows, TV viewers' letters, newspapers, radio programs, the underground press, and the Communist Party archives), Bren shows how Havel's greengrocer actually experienced "normalization" and the ways in which popular television serials framed this experience. Now back by popular demand, socialist-era serials, such as The Woman Behind the Counter and The Thirty Adventures of Major Zeman, provide, Bren contends, a way of seeing—literally and figuratively—Czechoslovakia's normalization and Eastern Europe's real socialism.

The Prague Spring

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language : en
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The Prague Spring 1968

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Author : Jarom¡r Navr til
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01

The Prague Spring 1968 written by Jarom¡r Navr til and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Political Science categories.

"In addition to revealing the events surrounding the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this is the first book to document a Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain. It is based on unprecedented access to the previously closed archives of each member of the Warsaw Pact, as well as once highly classified American documents from the National Security Council, CIA, and other intelligence agencies." "Presented in a highly readable volume, the book offers top-level documents from Kremlin Politburo meetings, multilateral sessions of the Warsaw Pact leading up to the decision to invade, transcripts of KGB-recorded telephone conversations between Leonid Brezhnev and Alexander Dubcek." "To provide a historical and political context, the editors have prepared essays to introduce each section of the volume. A chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further background information for the reader." "The editors have a unique perspective to offer to foreign audiences since they are members of the commission appointed by Vaclav Havel to investigate the events of 1967-1970."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Intellectual Origins Of The Prague Spring

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Author : Vladimir V. Kusin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-07-18

The Intellectual Origins Of The Prague Spring written by Vladimir V. Kusin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-18 with History categories.

A survey of the development of reformist ideas among the Czech intelligentsia after 1956.

Velvet Revolutions

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Author : Miroslav Vaněk
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016

Velvet Revolutions written by Miroslav Vaněk and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

This book investigates how values such as freedom, work, family, free time, and politics changed in Czech society in the two decades before and after the November 1989 Velvet Revolution. Miroslav Vanek and Pavel Mücke use public opinion polls as well as 300 interviews with Czech citizens to create a multi-layered view of Czech history before 1989 and during the subsequent period of democratic transformation.

That Spring In Prague

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Author : Jonathan Wills
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-01-17

That Spring In Prague written by Jonathan Wills and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-17 with categories.

In late March 1968 Jonathan Wills was one of a party of a dozen students from Edinburgh University who travelled by Channel ferry and train to Prague for a three-week exchange visit with the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University. The trip was arranged as part of the 'Edinburgh Conversations', established to keep academic contacts open between the West and the Communist East. They arrived to find many university classes suspended. In their place there was an endless tumult of seminars, meetings and teach-ins, where students, staff and politicians debated 'Socialism with a Human Face', the Czechoslovak Communist Party's brave but doomed attempt to loosen the dictatorship that had stifled all dissent since the coup of 1948. Some of the dissenters seemed to be advocating a form of Victorian laissez-faire capitalism, which, indeed, enjoyed a revival after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 led to an era of sado-monetarism in the Czech Republic, as elsewhere. In his introduction, Jonathan Wills writes: "When we weren't at meetings we were at the theatre, seeing politically provocative productions by playwrights such as Vaclav Havel that would have been impossible a few years earlier. There were films (notably 'Closely Watched Trains' by Jiři Menzel) and exhibitions by painters such as Frantisek Kupka, who had been out of favour for decades. "In the evenings there was a lot of pivo [beer] in the student bars (some of it undoubtedly purchased for us by gentlemen connected with the CIA) and private parties where we foreign visitors were welcomed into the family homes of our student hosts - something unthinkable under the dictatorship before (and for a long while after) the 'Prague Spring'. "In among it all I found time to wander the streets of Prague, taking pictures with the old Zeiss-Ikon Contina camera my father had given me. There are a few shots of Marxist students from the West who were trying to convince our Czech student colleagues that reformed 'Euro-communism' was a wonderful idea. But mostly I just tried to record the ordinary life of this beautiful city in the midst of political upheaval... "It was all fascinating. We made good friends and promised to write, but four months after we left the Prague Spring it withered and died in the August invasion by 'fraternal' Soviet forces. Edinburgh University advised us that contacting our new Czech friends might put them in danger, so we didn't. "Many years later, when my son married a Czech, I went back to Prague and met one of the students I'd known in 1968, Katia Paderlikova. These days I visit Prague as often as I can, to see my grandchildren. Katia and I sometimes have coffee in a café near the Clementinum, to talk over old times and what has been achieved, and not achieved, since those momentous weeks over 50 years ago. "If anyone knows where Marie Cervinkova, Jan Zelenka and Suzanna Urbanova are now, please let me know. I would love to hear from them." Jonathan Wills

Prague Spring

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Author : Simon Mawer
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-08-02

Prague Spring written by Simon Mawer and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-02 with Fiction categories.

'Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as brilliant as anything he has written, which is saying a lot' The Times It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's 'socialism with a human face' is smiling on the world. Meanwhile Sam Wareham, a first secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with a mixture of diplomatic cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konecková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?

Love And Freedom

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Author : Rosemary Kavan
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-11-27

Love And Freedom written by Rosemary Kavan and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-27 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.

Originally published in 1985, four years after its author's untimely death, Love and Freedom is the unforgettable story of Rosemary Kavan, an Englishwoman whose marriage to a Czech led her to experience life in post-war Prague, from early optimistic years, through the nightmare of the Stalinist purges, up to the 'Prague Spring' and its aftermath. Her husband Pavel, a devoted communist, fell victim to the show-trials of the early 1950s and spent years in prison, dying soon after his release. Branded 'a traitor's wife', Rosemary struggled to support herself and her two sons. In the mid-1960s she became involved in the student reform movement, but the Russian invasion of 1968 came as a further cataclysm. 'An outstanding memoir.' George Steiner 'The story of a tragic disillusionment, political and personal, told with invincible humour.' Graham Greene 'The overwhelming impression left by this book is one of warmth, true comradeship, courage and hope.' Timothy Garton Ash