LINKS

Some links are in English [E], other are in Czech [C]-- I'll let you know.

 

History

Because my history introduction is so poor, you should see more about Czech & Slovak history on these sites:

[E] What were Hitlers plan in the case that Czechoslovak army would resist in 1938? Have a look at the "The Execution of the Plan to Invade Czechoslovakia"

[E] A couple of touching images say more than thousand words about the Soviet invasion in 1968.

[E, C] Charter 77 was civil-rights declaration around which a major dissent "organization" emerged. Later in the 80s, Czech Helsinki Committee was formed to advocate for the civil rights in Czechoslovakia.

[E] The last "drop" that initiated forming of C77 was a government's repression against psychedelic bands. See an article about the most important of them -- The Plastic People of the Universe. The PPU were a part of the "Other Culture", a kind of passive resistance through art. A well-researched paper "ABNORMALIZATION: CULTURAL RESISTANCE TO THE BREZHNEV DOCTRINE." tells you more.

 

Around the November '89

[E, C] The only other site related directly to the Novemeber '89 is Sunsite Czech Republic. A lot of very impressive images can be found there (I use some of them at this site).

 

Post-Revolutionary Development

Let's see what's happening after the November 1989!

[C] One of the few ways the new Czechoslovak goverment tried to handle those who actively participated in the totalitarian regime was a controversial "lustration law", excluding these people from certain official posts. Its text is available in Czech.

[E] Another look at the transformation -- focusing on the spiritual development -- is provided by a famous Czech catholic priest and intellectual Tomas Halik in his paper "Post-Communism and Its Discontents".

[C, E] Online exhibition of a cartoonist Mr. Jirasek provides another point of view to the transformation.

[E] Many people think that Slovakia is somewhat returning to the totalitarian style of government. The Slovak students tried to express their anger about the development on a demonstration on Novemeber 17, 1994.

[E] A real lot of silly (I really mean it) activities and businesses emerged, too. Check out this stupidity, for example, about selling our girls abroad.

 

Czechs and Slovaks abroad

I know, I know. It's not directly related to the 11/17/89, but I cannot resist the temptation to create a first list ever of homepages of the Czech/Slovak students and professors living permanently or temporarily abroad. After all, we wouldn't be here if the Iron Curtain would be still on.

[E, C] Jan Culík is a Czech journalist teaching in the UK. There are many interesting resources on his page.

[E, C] Vaclav Polásek is a Ph.D student in the Department of Economics at Queen's University, Australia.

[E] Václav Vetvicka, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Department of Pathology in Kentucky.

[E] Jana Vetvicková works as a Research Technologist II on the same place. Oh, and she's the first female to be in this list.

[E] Radek Tezaur is a PhD student at Center for Computational Mathematics, Department of Mathematics of University of Colorado at Denver.

[E] Short CV's of the following professors: Jan Kucera (Washington State Uni.), Jan Vilcek (N.Y. Uni.), Eva Fifková (Uni. of Colorado) and Martin Tolar (University of Cincinnati). All these are in the USA.

[E] We've got a couple of high-school students in the USA! Check out the homepage of Jan Závada.

 

[E] If you're a Czech student living abroad you may want to let other know about yourself on this page (and, of course, here as well!)