Contents
Prologue
The Young Prince (1936-1945)
Beginnings
Folly
Republicans
Devil’s Playground
Zoology
Resistance
Cold Peace
Red Dawn (1945-1956)
Red Stars
Coup de Prague
Flying Splinters
Trials
Thirty-Sixers
Ashes on Ice
Stalin’s Shadows (1956-1968)
The public Poet
Stalin’s Carcass
To Barracks
Socialist Realism
Garden Party
The Crises
The Memorandum
Summer Friendship
Mid-Summer’s Night
A Politician of Retreat
Late-Socialism (1969-1989)
Normalization
Late-Socialism
Beggars’ Opera
Charter 77
Violence
Courage
The Powerless
The Victim
Prison
Largo Desolato
Temptation
Cliff-Hanging
Velvet Revolution (1989)
Revolution
Velvet Power
Machiavelli
A Crowned Republic
Te Deum Laudamus
Fun and Games
The Manipulator
Decline (1990-1999)
Defections
Parliament
Lustration
Market Power
Velvet Divorce
Oh Europe!
Metamorphosis
The Gift of Death
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Guide to Czech Pronunciation
Footnotes
A Note on the Author
By the Same Author