Description
A famed essay examines the Velvet Revolution from a sociological perspective. Thirty-two years after its initial publication, this respected sociological essay, written in the history-making years of 1989 and 1990, is available for the first time in English. The essay tells the story of a despotic Socialist state expropriating the family (and with it the private sphere of life) only to be colonized by the very thing it expropriated forty years later. The essay plunges the reader into the pivotal time of the Velvet Revolution and provides valid explanations for the grassroots causes of the old regime's downfall, examining the private aspirations and strategies of highly disparate groups of nameless social actors of the old regime that eventually sapped almost everyone of any interest in keeping the regime afloat.
Author: Ivo Mozný
Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
Published: 06/23/2023
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9788024653150
ISBN10: 802465315X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Eastern Europe | General
- History | Social History
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Author: Ivo Mozný
Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
Published: 06/23/2023
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9788024653150
ISBN10: 802465315X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Eastern Europe | General
- History | Social History
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
About the Author
Ivo Mozný (1932-2016) was a sociology professor and the first dean of Masaryk University's Faculty of Social Studies after the faculty's establishment in 1998. Phil Jones is a translator of Czech into English.