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VACLEV HAVEL
Vaclev Havel has been one of the leading intellectual figures and moral forces in eastern Europe in the last half of the century. Havels role as a public figure has now overshadowed his record as a dramatist and political writer.
Vaclav Havel was born in Prague, on October 5 1936. ... Between 1951 and 1955 Havel worked as a laboratory technician. ... It was then when he started to be known by the international public as a representative of the Czechoslovakian intellectual opposition.
Havel co-founded the Human rights organisation chapter 77 and the committee for the defence of the unjustly prosecuted. ... In domestic policy, Havel has been a leading initiator of democratic changes in the administration of the country and of the advancement of democracy in society. Havel resigned from the position of president of the Czechoslovakian Republic on July 20. ... Havel advocated membership of the Czech Republic and other central European countries in the NATO, and during a visit to the Czech Republic by president Bill Clinton, Havel received the Liberty medal for his efforts to promote democracy and ethnic peace. ... In 1948 the Communist party gained control, and Czechoslovakia became a member of the Soviet bloc and one of the most important industrial countries of Eastern Europe. ... But then, in 1989, with most of the Communist governments of Eastern Europe falling, Czechoslovakia raced through a revolution in which it abolished constitutional guarantees ensuring the Communist party the leading role in society, and became a democratic country.
Approximate Word count = 1108
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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