CULTR BLF 42 - Communism and the Politics of Culture: Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution

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Harvard University

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Examines how the intense political pressures of invasion, occupation, and revolution shape a country's intellectual life and are shaped by it in turn, looking at Czechoslovakia's literature, drama, film, and music from the 1948 Communist takeover, through the Prague Spring and Soviet invasion of 1968, to the 1989 Velvet Revolution, a hallmark of the peaceful overthrow of Communism in Central Europe. We consider works by Milan Kundera, Bohumil Hrabal, Vaclav Havel; films by Milos Forman, Vera Chytilova, Jiri Menzel; theories of political dissident and the "anti-politics" of Charter 77; and questions of historical memory in contemporary Prague.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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