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The article describes the rise and fall of the Civic Movement during the early 1990s, the most distinct post-dissident political group in Czech politics after 1989. Basically it follows two lines of enquiry. The first describes the post—Charter 77 community of people during the first years after the 1989 Czechoslovak democratic revolution, when strong personalities of the Czech culture and civic activism from its midst strove to cultivate a vision of “November 1989” in the nascent Czech democratic political culture and to promote the Velvet Revolution’s ethos as its base, first in the Civic Forum and later through one of the successor organisations, Civic Movement. Analysing the main reasons why these efforts were rather unsuccessful, the article turns to the “the politics of history” of the early Czechoslovak and Czech democracy. The “politics towards the past,” namely, turned out to be a soft spot of the post-dissident political elite and actually one of the main conflict points among the various cultural-political streams stemming from the former anticommunist opposition. The second line of enquiry focuses on this community’s half-hearted, if not even forced attempt at a political-ideological delineation heading towards socially conceived liberalism. The article describes how this attempt at recasting the “legacy” of former dissidence into a civic or social liberal political form also failed relatively soon due to the structural development of the Czech political system as well as internal ideological and political diversity of the Civic Movement.

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Recovering the Covering Letter: Submitting Manuscripts to Scholarly Journals in the Twenty-First Century

Journal of Scholarly Publishing ◽

10.3138/jsp.45.2.004 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 172-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Steven E. Gump

Keyword(s):

First Century ◽

Scholarly Journals ◽

Covering Letter ◽

Twenty First Century

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Charter 77 in the journalism of the Parisian “Kultura”

Klio - Czasopismo Poświęcone Dziejom Polski i Powszechnym ◽

10.12775/klio.2021.040 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 60 (4) ◽

pp. 173-210

Author(s):

Paweł Fiktus

Keyword(s):

Economic Reforms ◽

Special Period ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Warsaw Pact ◽

Prague Spring ◽

Charter 77 ◽

Southern Neighbour ◽

Opposition Movement

Although the Czechoslovak theme was not of particular interest in the journalism of “Kultura” (compared to Ukrainian or Lithuanian issues), it covered issues concerning Poland’s southern neighbour. The year 1968 marked a special period of increased interest in Czechoslovakia and the associated process of a series of social, political and economic reforms, which went down in history under the name of the Prague Spring. The period after the invasion by the Warsaw Pact troops and the start of the so-called process of normalization was also closely commented on by columnists and analysts of “Kultura”. However, particular attention was paid to the activities of the opposition in the area of Charter 77. The purpose of this article is to show how the Parisian “Kultura” referred to the opposition movement in Czechoslovakia. Moreover, Czechoslovak writers associated with Czechoslovak immigrant communities spoke out more often in “Kultura” pages

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The Influence of Different Factors on the Oral Health Status of Smoking and Nonsmoking Adults

The Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice ◽

10.5005/jp-journals-10024-1392 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 731-737 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Reem Saleem Tubaishat ◽

Zain A Malkawi ◽

Zakereyya S Albashaireh

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Oral Health ◽

Oral Health Status ◽

Chi Square ◽

Once Daily ◽

Covering Letter ◽

Gingival Bleeding ◽

Chi Square Test ◽

And Gender ◽

Emotional Effects

ABSTRACT Aim The aim of this study to determine the influence of smoking on self-reported oral health status among university students. Materials and methods Voluntary sample of 669 adults of 18 to 26 years old were invited to participate in the study. They were asked to read a self-designated questionnaire and a covering letter which explained the purpose of the study. The questionnaire addressed self-reported demographics, oral hygiene and smoking habits; knowledge about smoking and its effects on oral health. Data were statistically analyzed using Chi-square test to determine statistically significant differences across the oral health status. Results The sample included 340 (56.7%) males and 240 (43.3%) females; 56.8% of the subjects were nonsmokers; 43.2% were current smokers, and 17.5% smoke argileh. Almost 24.7% of subjects started smoking because of emotional effects; 66.9% did not smoke because of its harm to health. The percentage of subjects with dental plaque on their teeth was 27.1%, and with calculus was 27.9%, and with stains was 26.9%. About 35.5% of the subjects brushed their teeth once daily. Statistically, significant association was proven between smoking and gender (p < 0.01); and smoking and halitosis (p < 0.01). Conclusion Smoking is significantly related to esthetics, calculus, tooth stains, halitosis, gingival bleeding, and gender with p < 0.01, p < 0.01, p < 0.01, p < 0.01, p = 0.05, and p < 0.01 respectively. How to cite this article Tubaishat RS, Malkawi ZA, Albashaireh ZS. The Influence of Different Factors on the Oral Health Status of Smoking and Nonsmoking Adults. J Contemp Dent Pract 2013;14(4):731-737.

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