The complexities of central European politics can be baffling to outsiders. In fact, even those who knew their Slovaks from their Slovenes were surprised when, on New Year’s Day 1993, after seventy years of (sometimes turbulent) cohabitation, the Czechs and Slovaks went their separate ways and Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. To the outsider, at least, it had looked like a match made in heaven. Yet just three years after the Velvet Revolution – when true to their pacifist past, the Czechs and Slovaks had shrugged off forty-one years of Communist rule without so much as a shot being fired – came the Velvet Divorce. !--more-->!--more-->
Издател: | Rough Guides Ltd |
Език: | Английски |
Година: | 2006 |
ISBN: | 1843535254 |
Страници: | 666 |
Корици: | меки |
Тегло: | 555 грама |
Размери: | 20×13 |
Наличност: | Не |
Раздел: | Туризъм и пътуване, Хоби и свободно време, Книги |
Цена: 36.95