Search Results - Havel, Václav
Václav Havel
Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays and memoirs.His educational opportunities having been limited by his bourgeois background under the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Havel first rose to prominence as a playwright. In works such as ''The Garden Party'' and ''The Memorandum'', Havel used an absurdist style to criticize the Communist system. After participating in the Prague Spring and being blacklisted after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he became more politically active and helped found several dissident initiatives, including Charter 77 and the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted. His political activities brought him under the surveillance of the StB secret police, and he spent several periods as a political prisoner, the longest of his imprisoned terms being nearly four years, between 1979 and 1983.
Havel's Civic Forum party played a major role in the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist system in Czechoslovakia in 1989. He assumed the presidency shortly thereafter, and was re-elected in a landslide the following year and after Slovak independence in 1993. Havel was instrumental in dismantling the Warsaw Pact and enlargement of NATO membership eastward. Many of his stances and policies, such as his opposition to Slovak independence, condemnation of the treatment of Sudeten Germans and their mass expulsion from Czechoslovakia after World War II, as well as granting of general amnesty to all those imprisoned under the Communist era, were very controversial domestically. By the end of his presidency, he enjoyed greater popularity abroad than at home. Havel continued his life as a public intellectual after his presidency, launching several initiatives including the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, the VIZE 97 Foundation, and the Forum 2000 annual conference.
Havel's political philosophy was one of anti-consumerism, humanitarianism, environmentalism, civil activism, and direct democracy. He supported the Czech Green Party from 2004 until his death. He received numerous accolades during his lifetime, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the Four Freedoms Award, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, and the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award. The 2012–2013 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. He is considered by some to be one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century. The international airport in Prague was renamed Václav Havel Airport Prague in 2012. Provided by Wikipedia
- Showing 1 - 20 results of 41
- Go to Next Page
-
1
Projevy leden - červen 1990 by Havel, Václav
Published: Vyšehrad, 1990ISBN: 9788070210697Location:Call Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
2
Prezident v Bratislave : S textami Václava Havla. Otvorený list G. Husákovi. O zmysle Charty 77. Politika a svedomie. Slovo o slove. Novoročný prejav by Havel, Václav
Published: Archa, 1990ISBN: 9788090042223Location:Call Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
3
Largo Desolato : Buruk Ezgi by Havel, Václav
Published: Can Yayinlari, 1990Location:Call Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
4
Moc bezmocných by Havel, Václav
Published: Lidové noviny, 1990Location:Call Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
5
Moc bezmocných by Havel, Václav
Published: Lidové noviny, 1990Location:Call Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
6
Do různých stran : Eseje a články z let 1983-1989 by Havel, Václav
Published: Lidové noviny - Čs. středisko nezávislé literatury, 1990ISBN: 9788071060000Location:Call Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
7
Prezident v Bratislave: S textami Václava Havla
Published: Archa, 1990Other Authors: “…Havel, Václav, 1936-2011…”
Call Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
8
Letní přemítání by Havel, Václav
Published: Odeon, 1991Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
KRUZINOVCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
9
Hry by Havel, Václav
Published: Lidové noviny, 1992Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
KRUZINOVCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
10
Dálkový výslech by Havel, Václav
Published: Melantrich, 1989Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
KRUZINOVCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
11
O lidskem identitu by Havel, Václav
Published: Rozmluva, 1989Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
MASK2OKAABVCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
12
Prezident v Bratislave : S textami Václava Havla. Otvorený list G. Husákovi. O zmysle Charty 77. Politika a svedomie. Slovo o slove. Novoročný prejav. VYR by Havel, Václav
Published: Archa, 1990ISBN: 9788090042223Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
MASK2OKHNHCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
13
Largo desolato : 5 színmű by HAVEL, Václav
Published: Európa Kőnyvkiadó, 1989Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
MASK2OKLDCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
14
Moc bezmocných by Havel Václav
Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
MKBYTCACall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
15
Dálkový výslech by Havel Václav
Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
MKBYTCACall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
16
Largo desolato by Havel, Václav
Published: Európa Könyvkiadó, 1989Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
MKFILAKOVOCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
17
Dálkový výslech by Havel, Václav
Published: Melantrich, 1989Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
MKKNMCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
18
Dálkový výslech : Rozhovor s Karlem Hvížďalou by Havel, Václav
Published: Melantrich, 1990Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
MKSLIACCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
19
Dálkový výslech : Rozhovor s Karlem Hvížďalou by Havel, Václav
Published: 1989Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
MKSNINACall Number: Loading…
Book Loading… -
20
Dokumenty doby č. 1 : Václav Havel, kolektiv autorů Charty 77 a Občanského fóra by Havel, Václav
Published: Svépomoc, 1990ISBN: 9788070630372Location:Počet nájdených lokácií: 1
SNMMTEMCall Number: Loading…
Book Loading…
Search Tools:
Related Subjects
politika
prezidenti
Charta 77 (skupina)
Dissent
Documents
Elektronické knihy Česká a světová literatura
Havel
Havel, Václav, 1936
Nežná revolúcia, 1989
Občianske fórum (hnutie)
Szépirodalom
Velvet revolution, 1989
autobiografické príbehy
biografie
disent
divadelné hry
dokumenty
dramatici českí
ellenzék
kardináli
literatúra česká
náboženské perzekúcie
názory a postoje
politickí väzni
politika a vláda
rozhovory
soukromé sbírky
spoločnosť
umělecká keramika
štát a cirkev



