Czechoslovakia

(see also Czech Republic & Slovakia)

Basics

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

In the Library: Articles

Head, Anthony. "The tragedy of Lidice," History Today (6/02):44.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

de Candole, James. Czechoslovakia: The End of an Illusion (London: Alliance, 1993).

Leff, Carol Skalnik. The Czech & Slovak Republics: Nation vs. State (Boulder: Westview, 1996).

Sommer, Mark. Living in Freedom: the Exhilaration & Anguish of Prague’s Second Spring (San Francisco : Mercury House, 1992).

Spector, Scott. Prague Territories: National Conflict & Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siecle (Berkeley: U. California, 2003).

In the Library: Fiction

Kundera, Milan. The Joke (NY: HarperPerennial, 1993).

In the Library: For Young Readers

In the Library: Poetry

In the Library: Drama

In the Library: Photography

CD & Audio

Film & Video

""Fighter" [2001], dir. Amir Bar-Lev, 91m. From First Run Features. Two old friends, Czech survivors of Nazi occupation, return from American exile to revisit scenes of their youth.

"Kolya" [1996], dir. Jan Sverák, 105m. In video stores.

"Prague Spring" [199?], by Deutsche Welle, 29m. Recalls Alexander Dubcek's popular attempt to liberalize regime in 1968, & Soviet repression.