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International support for persecuted Charter 77 signatories
Pažout, Jaroslav
Charter 77 signatories faced persecution by communist regime immediately after the publication of its opening manifest. This persecution had various forms. The article discourses the best known case, the prosecution and conviction of the members of the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS) in the year 1979.
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The impossible return. Czech exile after November 1989
Zahradníček, Tomáš
Czech political exile in the 1990s are critically responded to the state of the country. The study examines why the extremely critical complaints began to reverberate soon after 1989 and recalls earlier discussions between exile and home, between exile politics and Charter 77, which have already appeared moments earlier misunderstandings, which after 1989 became important parts of the czech public debate.
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Introduction
Gjuričová, Adéla
The introduction explains the conference topics, depicts some remarkable points of the conference discussions, and refers to texts that could not be included in the volume.
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"1989-2009: Society. History. Politics". Collection of conference papers
Gjuričová, Adéla
The conference saw presentations by researchers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, France, Britain and the USA. The selected texts do not build on a reconstruction of 1989 events or the concept of „coming to terms with the communist past“, instead they focus on interesting (dis)continuities of the twenty years after 1989 with the 1970s and 1980s.
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Ernst Mach, his Prague physics students and their careers
Těšínská, Emilie
Based on archives, written memoirs and literature on history of science, the paper describes the teaching and research activities of physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (1838-1916) during his stay in Prague in 1867-1895 within a broader frame of physics at Prague University of that time. Mach´s engagement in the Prague (German) Naturhistorical Association „Lotos“ is mentioned as well. The professional carriers of some of Mach’s Prague university students and assistant are included.
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