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The Kyiv International, ’68 NOW, 2019

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This book is to be published fifty years after the events of ’68. The focus of the symposium, as is clear from the title, is concerned with both the discontinuities and the continuities between ’68 and our present situation, examined in a series of lectures organised by Vasyl Cherepanyn from the Visual Culture Research Center and with a contribution from tranzit.cz, in Kyiv.

The decision to grapple with the legacy of 1968 came out of the problematic nature of the public discourse in the Czech Republic and abroad regarding the fiftieth anniversary of these events. For instance, though the British newspaper The Guardian referred to 1968 as a “year of revolt,” what happened in Czechoslovakia was not really a revolt. The Prague Spring took place within the confines of the law. What was at stake was a reform of the system with the Communist Party itself as its vehicle, a reform that was supported by a large segment of the society including students, workers, and intellectuals. In regards to the Prague Spring itself, the media focused solely on its end – the Soviet occupation – with the movement that had preceded it remaining somehow traumatic and obscured. The book draws attention to the historical lineage which we must not lose sight of today when speaking about the Prague Spring of ’68 in connection with 1989.

The Kyiv International
Archive Books
2019
90 pages
Project of the Visual Culture Research Center
Edited da Vasyl Cherepanyn, Vít Havránek & Tereza Stejskalová
Graphic Design by Uliana Bychenkova, based on a grid di Experimental Jetset
Soft cover
10,5 x 18 cm

English

ISBN: 978-3-943620-65-8

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