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  2. Václav Havel - Wikipedia

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    Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦavɛl] ⓘ; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. [1] [2] Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.

  3. Havel: Unfinished Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Havel: Unfinished Revolution is a 2021 book by journalist, psychotherapist and academic David Gilbreath Barton.The book is a biography of Czech statesman, playwright and intellect Václav Havel. [1] [2] [3] [4]

  4. The Power of the Powerless - Wikipedia

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    The topic of how best to resist a totalitarian system occupied Havel's mind after the launch of Charter 77. This became the crux of his essay, which was one of the most "original and compelling pieces of political writing" to come out of the Eastern Bloc, according to Havel biographer, John Keane.

  5. Letters to Olga - Wikipedia

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    Letters to Olga (Czech:Dopisy Olze) is a book compiled from letters written by Czech playwright, dissident, and future president, Václav Havel to his wife Olga Havlová during his nearly four-year imprisonment from May 1979 to March 1983. [1] [2] (Havel was released

  6. Olga Havlová - Wikipedia

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    Olga Havel was the addressee of the intellectually deep, philosophically and existentially toned letters sent by Václav Havel during the years 1979 – 1983 from prison. Some of them were intended not only to her but also to the philosophically minded circle of friends with whom he - through the letters - tried to think through different ...

  7. Temptation (play) - Wikipedia

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    Havel was very popular among ordinary Americans for his idea of an inherent connection between religion and politics. [21] He believed that good men are often corrupted by the trappings of power and eventually stray from their original goals of pursuing the common good. Havel also believed that people entered politics for one of three reasons.

  8. Miloš Havel - Wikipedia

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    Miloš Havel (3 November 1899 – 25 February 1968) was a Czech film producer and studio executive. Havel was a director of the film production company Lucernafilm, which was founded by his father in 1912. He was also a chairman of the film studio A-B, which built its new studios in Barrandov in 1932.

  9. Miloš Zeman - Wikipedia

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    Protesters argued that Zeman had betrayed the legacy of Václav Havel, who helped Czechoslovakia and then Czech Republic become a champion of human rights, by being too sympathetic to authoritarian regimes and too close to Russia and China. They carried football-style red penalty cards as a warning of ejection to Zeman and threw eggs at him ...