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Title: Vilém Prečan papers
Dates: 1978-1999
Collection Number: 2000C75
Creator: Prečan, Vilém
Collection Size:
3 manuscript boxes
(1.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence with Václav Havel, video tapes, and audio tapes, relating to political conditions and civil rights in Czechoslovakia.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Czech
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[Identification of item], Vilém Prečan papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
The Havel-Prečan correspondence in this collection was published as
Václav Havel--Vilém Prečan : Korespondence 1983-1989 / K vydáni připravil Vojtech Čelko ve spolupráci s Vilémem Prečanem (Praha : Československé dokumentační středisko, 2011).
Czech historian and political dissident.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes more than two hundred letters between Prečan and Václav Havel. The letters, from the late 1970s through
1989, are an interesting mixture of personal news and commentary with reflections on society, theater and philosophy. Although
the first letter is from 1978, the bulk of the correspondence dates from 1984 to 1989, after Havel was released from prison
for illegal political activities. Havel's contact with Prečan in the Federal Republic of Germany was by mail, with the help
of Western diplomats. In addition to this correspondence are Havel's video and voice recordings.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Czechoslovakia--Politics and government--1968-1989.
Civil rights--Czechoslovakia.
Dissenters--Czechoslovakia.
Videotapes
Phonotapes
Havel, Václav.