Havel is best known as a dissident in Czechoslovakia and regarded as one of the most central figures throughout the revolutions of 1989. Coming from a well-established, intellectual Czech family, he started as a playwright. After the Prague Spring of 1968 he was increasingly involved in politics, and stood at the head of many anti-Comminist activities and initiatives. This includes "Charter 77," the human rights manifesto. His reputation as one of the leading political and moral leaders of anti-Communist dissident movements catepulted him to the Presidency of Czechoslovakia after the Velvet Revolution. After the so-called "Velvet Divorce," the separation of Czechoslovakia into the Czech and Slovak Republics, he served President of the Czech Republic for another ten years.
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———. "Politics without Cliche." Social Research 60, no. 3 (1993): 433-44.
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———. "Symbolism in the Diplomacy of Czech President Vaclav Havel." East European Quarterly 33, no. 1 (1999): 1.
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———. "Transformation Politics: The Debate between Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus on the Free Market and Civil Society." Studies in East European Thought 54, no. 3 (2002): 153-77.
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Havel, Vaclav. The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice: Speeches and Writings, 1990-1996. 1st edition. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf; distributed by Random House, 1997.
———. "A Call for Sacrifice: The Co-Responsibility of the West." Foreign Affairs 73, no. 2 (1994): 2-7.
Havel, Vaclav, Vaclav Klaus, and Petr Pithart. "Civil Society after Communism: Rival Visions." Journal of Democracy 7, no. 1 (1996): 12-23.
———. "Civilization's Thin Veneer." Surviving Together 13, no. 3 (1995): 3-5.
Havel, Vaclav, and Adam Michnik. "Confronting the Past Iii: Justice or Revenge?" Journal of Democracy 4, no. 1 (1993): 20-27.
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______. "'The Culture of Everything'." New York Review of Books 39, no. 10 (1992): 30-30.
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———. "Democracy's Forgotten Dimension." Journal of Democracy 6, no. 2 (1995): 3-10.
Havel, Vaclav, and Karel. Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
———. "A Dream for Czechoslovakia." New York Review of Books 39, no. 12 (1992): 8-13.
———. "The Emperor Has No Clothes." Journal of Democracy 16, no. 4 (2005): 5-8.
———. "The End of the Modern Era." Surviving Together 10, no. 2 (1992): 3-4.
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———. "A Farewell to Politics." New York Review of Books 49, no. 16 (2002): 4-4.
———. "The Future of Central Europe." New York Review of Books 37, no. 5 (1990): 18-19.
———. "History of a Public Enemy." New York Review of Books 37, no. 9 (1990): 36-44.
———. "The Hope for Europe." New York Review of Books 43, no. 11 (1996): 38-42.
———. "In Memory of Our Holocaust Victims." In Celebrating Elie Wiesel: Stories, Essays, Reflections, edited by Alan Rosen, 331-34. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.
———. "A Neglected Generation." In Czechoslovakia, 1918-88: Seventy Years from Independence, edited by H. Gordon Skilling, ? New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
———. "A New European Order?" New York Review of Books 42, no. 4 (1995): 43-45.
———. "New Year's Address." Orbis 34, no. 2 (1990): 253-62.
———. "New Year's Day Speech, 1990." In From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentary History of Eastern Europe since 1945, edited by Gale Stokes, 249-53. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1991.
———. "On Home." New York Review of Books 38, no. 20 (1991): 49-49.
_______. "On Kafka." New York Review of Books 37, no. 14 (1990): 19-19.
______. "On Rita Klimova." New York Review of Books 41, no. 3 (1994): 6-6.
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______. "Paradise Lost." New York Review of Books 39, no. 7 (1992): 6-8.
———. "The Paradox of Help: No Easy Solution except More Democracy." Surviving Together no. 24 (1991): 6-7.
———. "'People, Your Government Has Returned to You!'." Journal of Democracy 1, no. 2 (1990): 99-105.
———. "The Politics of Responsibility." World Policy Journal 12, no. 3 (1995): 81-87.
———. "The Post-Communist Nightmare." New York Review of Books 40, no. 10 (1993): 8-10.
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______. Post-Modernism: Address, July 4, 1994." Vital Speeches of the Day 60, (1994): 613-15.
______. "Postscript." In Europe from Below: An East-West Dialogue, edited by Mary Kaldor, 217-22. London: Verso, 1991.
______. "The Power of the Powerless." In The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central-Eastern Europe, edited by John Keane, 23-96. New York: Armonk, 1985.
———. "Reflections on a Paradoxical Life." New York Review of Books 37, no. 10 (1990): 38-38.
———. "The Responsibility of Intellectuals." New York Review of Books 42, no. 11 (1995): 36-38.
Havel, Vaclav and Richard von Weizsecker. "The Return of Germany." New York Review of Books 37, no. 7 (1990): 56-57.
———. "A Speech by Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, on the Occasion of 'Vaclav Havel's Civil Society Symposium'." Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal 14, no. 1 (2000): 107-11.
———. Summer Meditations. 1st American edition. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
______. Toward a Civil Society: Selected Speeches and Writings, 1990-1994. Prague: Lidove Noviny, 1994.
———. "Toward Individual Responsibility and a Multipolar World." Surviving Together no. 20 (1990): 6-7.
———. "Two Letters from Prison." Translation: The Journal of Literary Translation 25 (1991): 187-92.
———. "'Uncertain Strength': An Interview with Vaclav Havel." New York Review of Books 38, no. 14 (1991): 6ff-6ff.
———. Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth: Twenty-Two Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.
———. "The Velvet Hangover." Harper's 281, no. 1685 (1990): 18-21.
———. A Word About Words. New York, NY: The Cooper Union, 1992.
———. "Words on Words." New York Review of Books 36, no. 21 (1990): 5-8.
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