Czechoslovakia from the Velvet Revolution to the Velvet Divorce

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-157
Keyword(s):  
Velvet Revolution

Non-violent revolutions are believed to take place: A Discourse-Historical analysis of the Armenian Velvet Revolution in Armenian news media

2021 ◽  
pp. 175048132110177
Author(s):  
Shushan Azatyan ◽  
Zeinab Mohammad Ebrahimi ◽  
Yadollah Mansouri
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

The Velvet Revolution of Armenia, which took place in 2018, was an important event in the history of Armenia and changed the government peacefully by means of large demonstrations, rallies and marches. This historic event was covered by Armenian news media. Our goal here was to do a Discourse-Historical Analysis of the Armenian Velvet Revolution as covered by two Armenian websites: armenpress.am-the governmental website and 168.am-the non-governmental website. In our analysis we identified how the lexicon related to the Armenian Velvet Revolution was negotiated and legitimized by these media, and which discursive strategies were applied. We concluded that ‘Armenpress’ paid more attention to the government’s speeches, discussions, meetings and tried to impose the opinion of the government upon the people. In contrast, ‘168’ tried to present itself as an independent website with a neutral attitude toward the Velvet Revolution but, in reality, as we can conclude from the negative opinions about the Velvet Revolution in the coverage of ‘168’, it also represented the government’s interests. There was also a discursive struggle over the exact meaning of ‘revolution’ and the sense of ‘velvet’ in politics and the academic field that was to some extent introduced by these media.

scholarly journals Czech Film in Exile (Český film v exilu)

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Uhde
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

CZECH FILM IN EXILE (ČESKÝ FILM V EXILU). Jiří Voráč. Brno, Host 2004. 192pp, stills, index, English summary. ISBN: 8072941399.In Czech Film In Exile, Jiří Voráč turns to a topic painfully relevant for the cultural history of his country, yet ignored by his compatriot researchers for years. In the stifling times of the pre-1989 Communist dictatorship, the subject of the exile culture was strictly taboo. More surprising was that it continued to be neglected for almost fifteen years after the "velvet revolution" and subsequent democratization. Among the reasons may have been the geographic fragmentation, linguistic diversity and disorganization of the sources which had to be researched in countries on several continents. Another factor may have been a sort of ideological inertia among some of the Czech academic community, which did not seem to consider its own film exile a worthwhile academic subject.For Voráč, a film historian at Brno's Masaryk University,...

scholarly journals International business transformation patteerns of czech enterprises since the velvet revolution and the velvet divorce

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Goodnow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Business ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
World Class

From a macroeconomic standpoint, the Czech Republic has been viewed as a leading example of successful transformation from a state owned to a privatized economy. Yet at the firm and industry levels, the transformation process is still in its early stages. This article focuses on the transformation of outbound international business activities of the country and offers statistical and case study evidence to support four propositions describing the transformation process to date. First, most Czech international business activity is oriented toward its European neighbors. Second, globalization is beginning in a few selected firm and industries. Third, the reliance on low price rather than other international marketing advantages limits the development of world class images of Czech export commodities. Fourth, beginning globalization efforts of Czech firms focus on emerging markets of Asia, South America and Africa and to a lesser extent on the United States but largely exclude Japan.

scholarly journals La revolución de terciopelo y el movimiento intelectual checolovaco

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Casanova Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Communist Regime ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
Czech Society ◽  
The Way

Se conoce como "Revolución de terciopelo" los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en Checoslovaquia en otoño de 1989 y que dieron lugar a la caída del régimen comunista. Aunque calificada de terciopelo por la ausencia de violencia, fue aún más significativo el medio empleado por la sociedad checa para lograrlo: la palabra. Por ello hemos analizado, cómo y por qué, algunos intelectuales tales como, Havel. Kundera, Klima, Vaculík, Hrabal y Skvorecky, formaron parte del grupo de disidentes que hicieron posible el cambioThe revolution that took place in Czechoslovakia in 1989, is known as the «Velvet revolution» for the lack of violence involved to attain democracy. But more significant was the way used by czech society to get it: the word. Adopting this viewpoint we have analysed, how and why, several intellectuals such as, Havel, Kundera, Klima, Vaculík, Hrabal and Skvorecky, became dissidents, and their contribution to the breakdown of the communist regime.

scholarly journals Polskie zjawy polityczne

Politeja ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4(67)) ◽  
pp. 3-33
Author(s):  
Adam Chmielewski
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Shock Therapy ◽  
The Real ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
Economic Exclusion ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Real Socialism ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
Economic Shock

Poland’s Political Apparitions: How to Dispel ThemIn this paper I will argue that within the decades since the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the mutual perception of the liberal and leftist political formations negatively affected the prospects of their possible cooperation. A failure of the Polish liberals to cooperate with Poland’s Left was among the main reasons for the inability to form a progressive alliance. More importantly, it left a fertile ground upon which populist and authoritarian movements were able to grow. As a result, Poland, initially presented as a role model of the transition from the conditions of the “real” socialism, has become an oppressive despotic regime, just like Turkey and Hungary. I will attempt to explain the emergence of the non-liberal democracy in Poland by stressing in particular the failure of the Polish liberals to take seriously the problems of social and economic exclusion resulting from the economic shock therapy applied during the transformative decades. Pointing to the tradition of the egalitarian liberalism, largely o erlooked in Poland, I will argue that there are both doctrinal resources and practical models which could be tapped by Polish liberals in order to establish a fruitful cooperation with the Poland’s Left. Such a programme would have a chance to succeed on the condition of dispelling the phantom of neoliberalism

Romani literary endeavours in the Czech Republic: A historical survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
KAROLÍNA RYVOLOVÁ
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Velvet Revolution

This article offers a survey of writing by the Roma in former Czechoslovakia and current Czech Republic over a span of six decades. It traces the beginnings of Romani literature in two Romani journals published by the Union of Gypsies-Roma between 1969 and 1973, reveals some covert centres of activity in the relative silence of the Normalization years of the 1970s and 1980s, and highlights the milestones of development following the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Bringing developments up to present day, the essay shows the Czech Romani literary field as vibrant and ambitious and full of promise.

Coming to (a Short) Life: The Czechoslovak Parliament 1989-1992

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Adéla Gjuričová
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Short Life ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
Unitary State ◽  
Communist Past ◽  
Formal Procedures

The Czechoslovak federal parliament was designed in 1968 to replace the National Assembly of a unitary state and thus formally express equality between Czechs and Slovaks in the newly established federation. After the crash of the Prague Spring reforms, the socialist parliament lost most of its sovereignty, while preserving its federal character and formal procedures, thus providing a sort of “backup” legislature. The Velvet Revolution of 1989, with its proclaimed respect to peace and legality, logically found the ancient régime’s parliament in the centre of new politics. In the revolutionary parliament of 1989-1990, the concept of socialist parliamentarianism began to clash with new motives, such as the national unity, a break with the Communist past, liberal democracy, or subsidiarity. Various blends of socialist, revolutionary and liberal democratic views of the parliament consequently came to life, while each of these concepts as well as every practical policy was perceived and accepted in conflicting manners by the Czech and Slovak publics as well as political representations. Some of these differences turned out to be irreconcilable and the federal parliament eventually played a key role in administering the break-up of Czechoslovak federation in 1992.

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