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The events taking place during the Autumn of Nations 1989 transformed Central Europe so significantly that — though in the majority of Eastern Bloc countries it happened without bloodshed — the change may be called revolutionary. Later fate and life choices of the leaders and participants of the 1989 revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia have been as different as their ways to democracy. Difference is a source of mutual fascination, which in Poland has centered mostly around the person of Václav Havel. Why did the citizens of Czechoslovakia — who at the end of 1989 had organized mass demonstrations and a general strike throughout the whole country, and who had been ready to take a great risk to express their disapproval of the government’s policy — having achieved instant victory, peacefully return home and leave the political scene to officials and technocrats? Why did the ethos and discourse of the Velvet Revolution remain alive only in a narrow circle of intellectuals — former dissidents? Why did the new elite reduce its significance to the role of an effective gadget for the purpose of the Western media? The article presents the fate of the “children of the Velvet Revolution” as seen from the Polish perspective.
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In both his academic and literary works, Vladimír Macura, an eminent expert on the Czech national revival period, deconstructs the project of building a modern Czech nation. The project, based on the premises of J.G. Herder’s philosophy, provided for an “awakening” of the nation and its emancipation through social and cultural advance. In its essence, it was a model of a “great future project;” according to its premises, Czech society would be created “from scratch” following a theoretical model, with a designated pantheon of heroes, a canon of customs and conventions and, finally, a model of the Czech language generated by philologists. In his tetralogy Ten, který bude Macura presents a plan of the Czech national revival as a mixture of fantasies, accidents, local fashions, dreams, mistakes, personal interests and animosities of a small group of petits bourgeois of peasant origin, who are playing, as it were, at imagining the future society. From this perspective it seems surprising that this dinner party “future game” led over a period of several decades to the emergence of the real foundations of a society and, subsequently, an independent state. It is, therefore, worth advancing a working hypothesis that Macura in his tetralogy deconstructs not only the future plan of Czech national revival itself, but also the postmodernist scepticism about it.
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Report about  XIII International Slavonic Studies ConferenceWielkie tematy kultury w literaturach słowiańskich. Pamięć (Wrocław, 16–17 maja 2019 roku)
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