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Title: The Spirit of Prague

Author: Klíma, I.

Description: This collection of essays charts five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia by an author who witnessed it all; the horrors of Nazi occupation during the war, the Stalinist regimes of the 50s, the celebration of the Prague Spring, the despair of the Soviet invasion in 1968, the bravery of the members of Charter 77, the triumph of the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and the uncertainty following the formal division of his country.

Published Date: 1998

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