Velvet revolutions: an oral history of Czech society

Acknowledgements: The Privilege of Listening to the Voices of Memory

1. I Want to be Free! : Freedom as a Fundamental Human Value

2. The Family under Socialism and in the Whirlwind of Transformation

3. Friends and the Others : How Czechs Evaluate Foreigners and Foreign Countries

4. Education : A Gateway to Success in Life?

5. From the Requirement to Work to Looking for Work

6. Perception of Free Time : Work, Family, and Leisure

7. Us and Them : Eternal Predestination?

Appendix 1: Photographs by Jindřich Štreit

Appendix 2: Our Narrators.