{"product_id":"why-so-easily-some-family-reasons-for-the-velvet-revolution-a-sociological-essay-paperback","title":"Why So Easily . . . Some Family Reasons for the Velvet Revolution: A Sociological Essay - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIvo Mozný\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePhil Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA famed essay examines the Velvet Revolution from a sociological perspective.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thirty-two years after its initial publication, this respected sociological essay, written in the history-making years of 1989 and 1990, is available for the first time in English. The essay tells the story of a despotic Socialist state expropriating the family (and with it the private sphere of life) only to be colonized by the very thing it expropriated forty years later. The essay plunges the reader into the pivotal time of the Velvet Revolution and provides valid explanations for the grassroots causes of the old regime's downfall, examining the private aspirations and strategies of highly disparate groups of nameless social actors of the old regime that eventually sapped almost everyone of any interest in keeping the regime afloat.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIvo Mozný\u003c\/b\u003e (1932-2016) was a sociology professor and the first dean of Masaryk University's Faculty of Social Studies after the faculty's establishment in 1998. \u003cb\u003ePhil Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of Czech into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 23, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42171153285255,"sku":"9788024653150","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/caabe67bc4d0d0c8cfc8459fc2196a4d.webp?v=1733353505","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/why-so-easily-some-family-reasons-for-the-velvet-revolution-a-sociological-essay-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}