TY - BOOK ID - 77862127 TI - The Czech Republic PY - 2000 SN - 1135287309 1280055626 0203643542 9780203643549 9789058230430 9058230430 9789058230447 9058230449 9786610055623 6610055629 9781135287306 9781135287252 1135287252 9781135287290 1135287295 9058230430 9058230449 9781280055621 9812611401 PB - Amsterdam, the Netherlands Harwood Academic DB - UniCat KW - Czech Republic KW - Česká republika KW - ČR KW - Tschechische Republik KW - Česko KW - Czechia KW - チェコ KW - Cheko KW - チェコ共和国 KW - Cheko Kyōwakoku KW - Tschechien KW - Tschechenland KW - Tschechei KW - République tchèque KW - República Checa KW - Chequia KW - Txèquia‏ KW - Txeca KW - República Txeca KW - Češka KW - Czech Socialist Republic (Czechoslovakia) KW - Czechoslovakia KW - History. KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77862127 AB - Czechoslovakia has captured the nation's imagination throughout the twentieth century. The Allied betrayal of the country to Nazi Germany in 1938 was to demonstrate the appalling consequences of naive appeasement of aggression. The wholesale reform of Soviet communism in the Prague Spring of 1968 won western support, and sympathy when it was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks. The fierce communist regime thereafter was brought down almost magically in 1989. Czechoslovakia added to the international political vocabulary the term, 'Velvet Revolution', and the velvet metaphor has characterised much of... ER -