Vaclav Havel, the one-time dissident playwright who has traveled from prison to the presidency of Czechoslovakia ... Not only is Havel the most eloquent symbol of the “velvet revolution ...

During Czechoslovakia’s “springtime of freedom,” First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek was the symbol of the country’s new liberal spirit. Now, in the winter of its agony, Dubcek has ...

Either the masses believe in the truth of the confessions—and in that case, what must they think of a party ruled by spies for so long?—or else they do not believe in it, but then the purpose ...

My interest in writing about Ivan Passer and Milos Forman’s escape from Czechoslovakia goes back more than 25 years, since almost the beginning of my acquaintance with Passer. I met him when he ...

He signed some sketches with a symbol so they couldn’t be traced back to him. Drawing, he found, was a reminder of his humanity. Terna was 16 years old when German troops marched into Prague ...