For better or worse, Czechoslovakia last week was deep in the throes of revolution. It was not an upheaval in the old style of blood and barricades. It was in Europe’s new style—a revolution by law.

On Nov. 17, 1989, student protesters filled the streets of Prague. It was eight days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the same tide of freedom that had swept Berlin seemed to have come to the ...

Nov. 17 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1558, the Elizabethan Age begins when Britain's Queen Elizabeth I ascended to the throne upon her half-sister, Queen Mary's death. In 1800, the U.S.

PRAGUE - The end of Czechoslovakia's totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a matter of weeks, without a shot fired. But ...

“Every woman-cook,” cried little Red Father Lenin in the first flush of revolution, “can rule the state.” But instead the state soon ruled the women, liberating them from the “old household slavery” ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article deals with the thus far unnoticed “intellectual origin” of the so-called Prague Spring. It summarizes tenets of behavioral ...

[naviga:h2 style="padding-left: 30px;"]Thirty years ago, the world changed. It was 1989, and communism was falling in Europe. The Berlin Wall dividing East and West ...