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Václav Havel
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Václav Havel , 1936-, Czech dramatist and essayist, president of Czechoslovakia (1989-92) and the Czech Republic (1993-2003). The most original Czech dramatist to emerge in the 1960s, Havel soon antagonized the political power structure by focusing on the senselessness and absurdity of mechanized, totalitarian society in plays that implicitly criticized the government such as The Garden Party (1963, tr. 1969) and The Memorandum (1965, tr. 1967) and in various essays of the 1960s and 70s. As a leading spokesman for the dissident group Charter 77, he was imprisoned (1979-...
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Václav Klaus
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, 1941-, Czech politician. A free-market economist and leader of the Civic Democratic party, he has ... In 2003 he was elected Czech president, succeeding the retiring Václav Havel , with whom Klaus was often at odds when he was prime minister.
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Czech Republic
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... Republic on Jan. 1, 1993. Václav Havel , who had been president of ... came into office, headed by Václav Klaus . The government moved ... caretaker prime minister. Havel was reelected in 1998 and ... minister by Vladimír Spidla. Václav Klaus was elected president in 2003, succeeding the ...
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