One Hundred Student Revolutions

The book brings unique testimonies of hundreds of student actors of the November 1989 revolution, through which it depicts life in the times of the so-called "revolution". normalization and in the moments of the regime's collapse. After a historical and methodological introduction to the issue and an interpretation of the interviews, 65 interviews with university students from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia from a sample taken between 1996 and 1998 follow. The first edition (1999) significantly contributed to the establishment of oral history within domestic contemporary history research. < br> < br> The second, expanded edition of the book includes a newly included study of the history and memory of several generations of students from key periods of Czech modern history, as well as a look back at the public response to the first edition.