Vilém Prečan papers 1978-1999

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Vilém Prečan papers 1978-1999

Correspondence with Václav Havel, video tapes, and audio tapes, relating to political conditions and civil rights in Czechoslovakia.

3 manuscript boxes; (1.2 linear feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6656944

Hoover Institution Archives

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Havel, Václav, 1936-2011

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Václav Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. 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 brough...

Prečan, Vilém

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Biographical Note Czech historian and political dissident. From the guide to the Vilém Prečan papers, 1978-1999, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...