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Title: Vilém Prečan papers
Date (inclusive): 1978-1999
Collection Number: 2000C75
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Czech
Physical Description:
7 manuscript boxes
(2.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence with Václav Havel, video tapes, and audio tapes, relating to political conditions and civil rights in Czechoslovakia.
Also includes photographic reproductions of memoranda, 1947-1948, relating to political conditions in Czechoslovakia (In Czech).
Creator:
Havel, Václav
Creator:
Prečan, Vilém
Creator:
Vaculík, Ludvík
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.
[Identification of item], Vilém Prečan papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Havel-Prečan correspondence in this collection was published as
Václav Havel--Vilém Prečan : Korespondence 1983-1989 / K vydáni připravil Vojtech Čelko ve spolupráci s Vilémem Prečanem (Praha : Československé dokumentační středisko, 2011).
Czech historian and political dissident.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes more than two hundred letters between Prečan and Václav Havel. The letters, from the late 1970s through
1989, are an interesting mixture of personal news and commentary with reflections on society, theater and philosophy. Although
the first letter is from 1978, the bulk of the correspondence dates from 1984 to 1989, after Havel was released from prison
for illegal political activities. Havel's contact with Prečan in the Federal Republic of Germany was by mail, with the help
of Western diplomats. In addition to this correspondence are Havel's video and voice recordings.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Video tapes
Dissenters -- Czechoslovakia
Civil rights -- Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1968-1989