Vaclav Havel

In Eastern Europe, some of the most important leaders of the anti-communist dissident movement were social democrats such as Vaclav Havel and Andrei Sakharov.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Victims of Communism Day 2010

In Dubcek's Czechoslovakia, once-underground playwrights such as Vaclav Havel and Pavel Kohout were becoming international stars combining the Czech Kafkaesque tradition of absurdist wit and a dangerous, Beck-like fusion of art and politics.

1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

We've seen great dissident heroes, such as Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa help throw off communist rule and emerge as leaders of their people.

Vice Presidents Foreign Policy Speech In Wisconsin ITY National Archives 1994

And the President has told me that one of the things he is most looking forward to is meeting again with some of those democratic heroes, such as Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa.

Vice Presidents Foreign Policy Speech In Wisconsin ITY National Archives 1994

His position in China resembles that of Eastern European intellectuals such as Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia who, while apparently powerless, can have a deep effect on their society.

The Price China Has Paid: An Interview with Liu Binyan Gardels, Nathan 1989

The text of the resolution mentions testimony by leaders such as Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa to RFE/RL's role in the fall of communism, while applauding RFE/RL for continually overcoming intimidation from hostile governments and threats to its journalists, who have risked their lives in service of its mission.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2009

As previous generations have stood with the Solidarity Workers of Poland and intellectuals such as Vaclav Havel and as they’ve supported change in South Africa, they can and should repeat the great democratic exercise in the Middle East, at least with words.

Democracy in the Middle East? Walid Phares 2010

As previous generations have stood with the Solidarity Workers of Poland and intellectuals such as Vaclav Havel and as they’ve supported change in South Africa, they can and should repeat the great democratic exercise in the Middle East, at least with words.

Democracy in the Middle East? Walid Phares 2010

When Vaclav Havel compared the "nightmare of communism" to "the nightmare of post-communism" — the hardly pretty but immeasurably more benign post-Soviet reality — Brodsky wrote in a long and angry response that communism was "a breakdown of humanity and not a political problem."

A World Fiercely Observed Leon Aron 2011

Blame Vaclav Havel for this to-do item on the lists of his revolutionary proteges across the Arab world, and in Iran and China.

Branding Your Revolution Matthew Kaminski 2011