The National Museum and St. Wenceslas

Hunting for Havel

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July 29th 2009
Although I knew of Václav Havel before I began the seminar in Berlin, I admit that my prior knowledge of his life and work were, well, cursory. I knew he was a playwright-dissident who had become the first post-communist president of Czechoslovakia. That was about it. But many of us in the program became big fans of his writing and ideas as we read his Power of the Powerless and Summer Meditation ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more