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Eastern European Oral History Project interviews
2000C8
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Selected partial transcripts of interviews, clippings on interviewees, and related notes
Sound recordings on sound compact cassettes 1999-2001
Physical Description: 24.0 sound_cassettes
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Miroslav Kusy interview
Use copy reference number: 2000c8_a_0010592
Former chief of staff for the office of the president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel. A political philosopher from Slovakia,
a prominent personality of the 1968 Prague Spring. He was expelled from public and academic life, persecuted and imprisoned.
As one of the original signatories of Charter 77, he became an active participant in the dissident movement, which culminated
in the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The arrest and trial of Kusy and Carnogursky in the summer and autumn of 1989 was one of
the last major events in the old regime. Since '89, he has been elected to the Federal Parliament, and served as Rector of
Comenius University in Bratislava. Board member of the Czech Helsinki Committee for Human Rights; heads the UNESCO Chair on
Culture of Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights.
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Zofia Fedorowicz-Grzelak interview 27 January 2000-28 January 2000