Overview of the Vilém Prečan Papers

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Overview of the Vilém Prečan Papers

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Processed by:: Hoover Institution Archives Staff
Date Completed:: 2011
Encoded by:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by Samira Bozorgi.

Collection Summary

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

Administrative Information

Access

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Vilém Prečan papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.

Accruals

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.

Alternate Forms Available

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).

Biographical Note

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.

Indexing Terms

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.

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