Note: The order of links on this page roughly correspond to the order of topics on our syllabus

A RECENT INTERVIEW WITH VACLAV HAVEL in which he addresses the question:

“If a 20-year old read your essay “Power of the Powerless” today, what lessons could he learn?”

http://www.salon.eu.sk/article.php?article=801

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MICHAEL LONG’S MAKING HISTORY WEBSITE

Put faces to the names in our Oral History book, Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989

http://makinghistory.us/eleven-voices.html

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WHO ARE THE PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE?

A quick intro to the band: http://www.prague-life.com/prague/plastic-people

Tom Stoppard’s interview:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6960888.ece

Frank Zappa’s Plastic People song: http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Zappa-Plastic-People.htm

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THE JAZZ SECTION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_in_dissident_Czechoslovakia

For the Kurt Vonnegut fans out there: http://www.radio.cz/en/article/90508

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Before Lady Gaga, there was Věra Chytilová: DAISIES

Check out these informative sites about the censored film:

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/movies/reviews/documents/02887404.htm

http://greyfrankfilm.blogspot.com/2007/01/vera-chytilova-daisies-1966.html

http://www.kinoeye.org/02/08/radkiewicz08.php

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BOHUMIL HRABAL Too Loud a Solitude

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/15/bohumil-hrabal

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hrabal.htm