Central and East European Studies - Level 2

Regime Transition in Czechoslovakia - useful links

• Jan Culik, 1968 Prague Spring - powerpoint presentation

• Jan Culik, Czechoslovakia under Communism: popular opinion

• Jan Culik, Czechoslovakia 1970 - 1989 with a powerpoint presentation

• Czech Political Culture in the 1990s (Jan Culik): (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/staff/Czech_politics.html)

• Anti-Communism and Emotional Substitutes: (The sources of political legitimacy in the Czech Republic in the 1990s (Jan Culik) (http://www.ce-review.org/00/40/culik40.html)

• How power makes or brakes political parties (Jan Culik) (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Ramkema.htm)

• Pavel Kohout and Communism in Czechoslovakia (Jan Culik) (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Poet.htm)

• Rising Discontent: The year 1999 in Review (Jan Culik) (http://www.ce-review.org./99/25/culik25.html)

• Andrew Stroehlein, Jan Culik, Steven Saxonberg and Kazi Stastna, The Czech Republic 1992 to 1999: From unintentional political birth to prolonged political crisis (http.//www.ce-review.org./99/12/stroehlein12.html)

• Czech Media, Czech politics and Czech culture - a selection of articles from 1998 - 1999 (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Stroehlein.html)

• Czech Media - a postcommunist model? (Jan Culik) (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Czech_Media_now.htm)

• Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic: Cultural Transition since 1989 (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Censor.htm)

• Czechoslovakia/Media - the Czech Republic: A General Overview, April 2002(http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Czech_Media.doc)

Background: Material on Czech literature, culture and politics:

• Jan Culik, Czech Literature. An overview, in English, of the history of Czech literature since its inception to the present day. (January 2009)
• The Czechs and their Historical Experience. A Thousand Years of Czech Literature - (bullet point notes)
• The Communist Takeover
• Czech Literature 1945-46
• Socialist Realism
• Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)
• Czech Literature 1956-68
• Josef Skvorecky (1924-)
• Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997)
• Arnost Lustig (1926-)

• Václav Havel (1936 - )
• (Additional info:) Václav Havel (JC 's article for The Scotsman, 1990)
• The Theatre of the Absurd
• (Additional info:) Václav Havel ( JC's review of James Pontuso's monograph)

• Milan Kundera (1929-)
• Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Milan Kundera as a Young Stalinist
• Michal Viewegh (1962-)
• Emil Hakl (1958-)

Outline Handouts:

• The curse of the Prague Spring? (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Curse.htm)

• Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic and Slovakia since the fall of communism (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/CR89_08.htm)

Handouts - Media and Culture, Czech Rep.:

• Czechoslovakia in cultural transition 1960 - 2000 (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/DCEES_cult.htm)

• The Immediate Effects of Transition: Looking to a Golden Age (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Cz_media_transition.htm)

• Public Service Television. What does it mean? Can it exist? (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Cz_PublicServiceTV.htm)

• Regulation, Privatization and Foreign Investment – The Story of Nova TV (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Cz_NovaTV.htm)

• The Arts in Media Transition (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Cz_ArtsTrans.htm)

• Czech Cinematography 1989 - 2007 (excerpts from Jan Culik´s book Jaci jsme, Host, Brno 2007, translated into English)

Further secondary reading:

Kopecký, Petr, Parliaments in the Czech and Slovak Republics : party competition and parliamentary institutionalization / Peter Kopecký. Publ. Info. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2001.

Myant, Martin, The rise and fall of Czech capitalism : economic development in the Czech Republic since 1989.

Fawn, Rick. Title The Czech Republic : a nation of velvet Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, c2000.

Shepherd, Robin, Czechoslovakia : the Velvet Revolution and beyond, Publ. Info. Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000.

Author Martinsen, Kĺre Dahl, Title Between the Red Devil and the Deep Blue Sea : the State and Corporate Governance in the Czech Republic, 1989-1994, Roskilde : Roslilde University, Dept. of Social Sciences, 2000.

Ten years of rebuilding capitalism : Czech society after 1989 editors: Jirí Vecerník & Petr Mateju.

Kostelecky, Thomas, Political parties after communism : developments in East-Central Europe