Description
A famed essay examines the Velvet Revolution from a sociological perspective.
Thirty-two years after its initial publication, this respected sociological essay, written in the history-making years of 1989 and 1990, is available for the first time in English. The essay tells the story of a despotic Socialist state expropriating the family (and with it the private sphere of life) only to be colonized by the very thing it expropriated forty years later. The essay plunges the reader into the pivotal time of the Velvet Revolution and provides valid explanations for the grassroots causes of the old regime's downfall, examining the private aspirations and strategies of highly disparate groups of nameless social actors of the old regime that eventually sapped almost everyone of any interest in keeping the regime afloat.
About the Author
Ivo Mozny (1932-2016) was a sociology professor and the first dean of Masaryk University's Faculty of Social Studies after the faculty's establishment in 1998. Phil Jones is a translator of Czech into English.
Book Information
ISBN 9788024653150
Author Ivo Mozny
Format Paperback
Page Count 150
Imprint Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Publisher Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 152mm * 15mm
Thirty-two years after its initial publication, this respected sociological essay, written in the history-making years of 1989 and 1990, is available for the first time in English. The essay tells the story of a despotic Socialist state expropriating the family (and with it the private sphere of life) only to be colonized by the very thing it expropriated forty years later. The essay plunges the reader into the pivotal time of the Velvet Revolution and provides valid explanations for the grassroots causes of the old regime's downfall, examining the private aspirations and strategies of highly disparate groups of nameless social actors of the old regime that eventually sapped almost everyone of any interest in keeping the regime afloat.
About the Author
Ivo Mozny (1932-2016) was a sociology professor and the first dean of Masaryk University's Faculty of Social Studies after the faculty's establishment in 1998. Phil Jones is a translator of Czech into English.
Book Information
ISBN 9788024653150
Author Ivo Mozny
Format Paperback
Page Count 150
Imprint Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Publisher Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 152mm * 15mm
