Sweet and sour fruits of the Velvet Revolution
Sweet and sour fruits of the Velvet Revolution
Author(s): Jiří DienstbierSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Přítomnost
Summary/Abstract: During the communist era, Jiří Dienstbier was spokesman for the Czechoslovakian Charter 77 movement. Following the Velvet Revolution, he went from being a dissident, forced to stoke boilers in the Prague metro system, to becoming the country’s Foreign Minister. In the following article, he offers his views on what the Velvet Revolution has and has not delivered.
Journal: The New Presence
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 14-15
- Page Count: 2
- Language: English
