Vsechno bylo nove : Ceska ekonomika po roce 1989 - nekolik pohledu na transformacni proces ocima dobovych protagonistu  Everything Was New: The Czech Economy After 1989—Several Perspectives on the Transformation Process Through the Eyes of Key Figures of the Time 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2573445B

  Author(s)

  Kratka, Lenka

  City

  Praha 

  Country

  Czech Republic 

  Language

  Czech 

  ISBN

  9788024656649 

  Date of Publication

  2023 

  Publisher

  Karolinum  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  169 

  Series

  Oralni historie a soudobe dejiny 2023

  Subject

  Economics / Business / Commerce

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Industry (Manufacturing) and Technology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Krátká, Lenka

  Publisher

  Karolinum  

• Description

  Everything Was New: The Czech Economy After 1989—Several Perspectives on the Transformation Process Through the Eyes of Key Figures of the Time The book contains a collection of edited interviews with key figures in the post-November transformation of the Czech economy, ten men and one woman, which not only reflects the transformation period of the 1990s but also offers an interesting glimpse into the interplay between broader historical events and individual career trajectories. The interviews capture a wide range of experiences, from the highest decision-making levels (the National Property Fund, ministries) through the reflections of participants in the privatization process and “transforming” managers of formerly socialist enterprises, to new entrepreneurs who seized the opportunity and became owners and founders of companies. The testimonies of eyewitnesses are supplemented by a methodological essay and an interpretive chapter that examines some of the strategies for “coming to terms with the past”—that is, how the narrators maintain a symbolic distance from the negative aspects associated with today’s general perception of transformation and privatization.