The Price of Velvet: Thomas Masaryk and Vaclav Havel

Author(s): Ernst Gellner

In: Czech Sociological Review, Vol 3, No 1, 1995, pp. 45-57

Explores the disadvantages of ‘velvet revolutions’ with a specific focus on Czechoslovakia and comparing Vaclav Havel with the earlier president and theorist Thomas Masaryk.