New Eastern Europe - November-December 2017

159 specific group of people, who were – in fact – irreplaceable. Or maybe it was an expression of Kultura’s credo? Certainly hi ...

Legnica with a view to Russia GRZEGORZ ŻURAWIŃSKI The Modjeska Theatre in Legnica, Poland. “Talking about Russia from a the- atr ...

161 racks (where every road leading out of town led to). There was a Soviet part of the railway station and special stores for S ...

162 was different – architecturally and his- torically. He began his work at the thea- tre which was located in a building built ...

163 with the staging of Bulat Okudzhava’s The Extraordinary Adventures of Secret Agent Shipov. The play staged with 19th century ...

164 ject the chance for modernity, are ser- vile and adopt the absolute rule getting caught up in murderous plots. The list of p ...

Poles and Czechs across generations The year 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of Charter 77, one of the key docume ...

The Czech paradox ALEKSANDER KACZOROWSKI Czechs are by definition more western and European (although not necessarily pro-Europe ...

167 Myths In 1992 and 1993 Czechs showed Europe that the Czech Republic could be created as a result of a political transaction ...

168 Passenger without a ticket Czechs, by definition, are more western and European (although not neces- sarily pro-EU), more de ...

169 and were introduced into the global historiography by Fernand Braudel and Im- manuel Wallerstein. Małowist and Kula provided ...

170 comparable to the area of a Habsburg province a hundred years ago [and even though] contemporary smaller nation states are r ...

At peace with ourselves An interview with Martin Palouš, Czech diplomat and philosopher and one of the first signatories of Char ...

172 uation was perfectly described by Václav Havel in A Letter to Gustav Husák from He argued there that people can- not be man ...

173 tuals and people of various professions. For the whole time that the Charter so- ciety was functioning, diversity was al- wa ...

174 self as the boss. He used to say that he was only writing on his own behalf and never forced anyone to put their signa- ture ...

Millennials versus statistics KINGA MOTYKA The image which emerges from statistics depicts a Czech millennial who is similar to ...

176 Emigrate or not to emigrate? One of the main differences between young Czechs and Poles is their attitude towards emigration ...

177 rent a room or even just a bed. In her article for Radio Wave, Zuzana Fuksova argued that many young Czechs move to small ci ...

178 needed” and the number of divorces in the Czech Republic is relatively high (al- though in recent years it has been systemat ...