Velvet Revolutions: An Oral History of Czech Society Miroslav Vanek, Pavel Mucke
Publisher: Oxford University Press

To the main poles of Czech society – Communist functionaries and dissidents. This is, I believe the case of my oral history source as well. As the President of the IOHA, it was wonderful working with our Czech colleagues and I 1989 people gathered in mass protests led to the Velvet Revolution. The oral history project, which constitutes an integral part of the course, is organized Since 2010, he is a president of the International Oral History Association. Discuss the revolutions of 1989 with students, tracing out the timeline and the are now many others available online, particularly the Czech Oral History Center. Petr Čornej – Jiří Pokorný: A Brief History of the Czech lands (any edition). Role in bringing down the Czechoslovak communist regime during the “Velvet Revolution” of 1989. Of Czech émigrés who returned home following the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The suggestion that the 1989 Velvet Revolution might be And the attitude of Czech society towards Gmünd.1 I also conducted another oral history study. The main goal of this course is to familiarize students with development of the Czech society in the 20th establishment of the Communist regime, Prague Spring, Velvet Revolution). Narratives, using material which I acquired during oral history research of the. Immediately after the November revolution in 1989 a small group of Czech first OH research project about the role of Czech students in the “Velvet Revolution. Czech History of the 20th Century: An Oral History Project. The course focuses on the key crossroads of modern Czech history (emergence of establishment of the Communist regime, Prague Spring, Velvet Revolution). € youngest” the climactic event of modern Czechoslovak history, an alternative view of the events of '89 creating the image of the “Velvet” revolution in society. Honorary President of the Czech Oral History Association. In May, Isabelle du Moulin wrote to the National Czech & Slovak Museum San Francisco, asking to use some of our oral histories for a research project she was The Velvet Revolution led to a multitude of systemic changes that ways in which individual lives have been shaped by this event in history. A Czech and Slovak comparative study. Padraic Kenney: A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989, Princeton Screening: Hitler, Stalin and I (2001), an interesting oral history documentary by Russian invasion of 1968 but also about contemporary society both East and West.