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Rok 2007 – rok Charty 77 Zpráva o akcích k třicátému výročí
Events Marking the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Charter 77: A Report

Author(s): Jiří Suk
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro soudobé dějiny

Summary/Abstract: Jiří Suk provides an overview of the important events held in the Czech Republic in 2007 to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the emergence of the Charter 77 human-rights movement. He mentions the documentary fi lms broadcast by Czech Television, the special February issue of Dějiny a současnost, “Charter 77 and the Opposition of the Religious in the Years of Normalization,” a seminar held at the CEVRO Institute in November, and the publishing of the complete, annotated edition of almost six hundred Charter 77 documents, compiled and edited by Blanka Císařovská and Vilém Prečan, and provides a detailed report on “Charter 77: From the Assertion of Human Rights to the Democratic Revolution, 1977–1989,” an international conference held in Prague, 21–23 March 2007, the proceedings of which have just been published.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2007
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 928-931
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Czech