BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CHRONOLOGY -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE LEGACIES OF HISTORY: FROM THE FOUNDATION TO THE VELVET REVOLUTION AND THE VELVET DIVORCE -- CREATING CZECHOSLOVAKIA -- CZECHOSLOVAKIA DISMEMBERED -- COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1948-1968 -- THE PRAGUE SPRING AND SOVIET INVASION -- 'NORMALIZATION' -- GORBACHEV: THE WINDS OF CHANGE? -- 'VELVET REVOLUTION' IN 1989 -- POST-COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1990-1992 -- Chapter 2 FRAMING VELVET: THE INSTITUTIONAL ARENA AND RULES OF THE GAME IN CZECH POLITICS -- THE IDEALS OF NEW CZECH POLITICAL LIFE -- THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICS IN PRINCIPLE -- PRESIDENT -- THE PRESIDENT AS PERSONALITY -- PARLIAMENT -- THE GOVERNMENT -- PRIME MINISTERS AS PERSONALITIES -- THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT AND THE JUDICIARY -- REGIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT -- MEDIA -- POLITICS IN PRACTICE: PARTIES AND PARTY POLITICS -- THE CABINET AND COALITION POLITICS -- THE FALL OF THE KLAUS GOVERNMENT -- Chapter 3 PATCHWORK VELVET: THE BURST BUBBLE OF THE CZECH ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION -- PRE-TRANSFORMATION: CONDITIONS AND THINKING -- KLAUS' ECONOMIC REFORMS: THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS AND THEORY -- IMPLEMENTING THE ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION -- Privatization -- Restitution -- Small Privatization -- Large Privatization -- PRIVATIZATION AS AN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROCESS -- INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING -- RESTRUCTURING THE WORKFORCE, UNEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY -- PRICE LIBERALIZATION -- CURRENCY REFORM AND CONVERTIBILITYLITY -- FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND BANKING -- FOREIGN TRADE AND INVESTMENT -- ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC -- THE EXPLODED MIRACLE AND THE FUTURE OF THE CZECH ECONOMY -- CONCLUSIONS: THE ECONOMY AND ITS PROSPECTS -- Chapter 4 EXPORTING VELVET: THE CZECH REPUBLIC'S FOREIGN POLICY -- THE PRINCIPLES OF CZECH FOREIGN POLICY -- RELATIONS WITH SLOVAKIA.

REGIONAL RELATIONS -- CZECH-GERMAN RELATIONS -- WESTERN INTEGRATION -- EUROPEAN UNION -- NATO AND EUROPEAN SECURITY -- Chapter 5 A NATION OF VELVET? TOWARDS A NEW CZECH NATIONAL IDENTITY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.