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An Uncanny Era
Václav Havel
Adam Michnik
其他書名
Conversations Between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik
出版
Yale University Press
, 2014-05-27
主題
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Comparative Politics
History / Europe / Eastern
History / Revolutionary
ISBN
0300204035
9780300204032
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5V5-AwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who “plotted” democracy, and designed an effective peaceful strategy for dismantling authoritarian regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, resulted in a lifelong friendship and an extraordinary set of bold conversations conducted over the next two postrevolutionary decades.
Havel, president of Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, and Michnik, editor-in-chief of the largest daily newspaper in the region, provide rare insights into the post-1989 challenges to building new democratic institutions and new habits in the context of an increasingly unsettling political culture. With both dismay and humor, their fascinating exchanges wrestle with the essential question of postrevolutionary life: How does one preserve the revolution’s ideals in the real world? At once historically immediate and politically universal, the Havel-Michnik conversations have never before been collected in a single volume in any language.