Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89 : A Political and Social History
(Produkt nebyl zatím hodnocen)
Vydavatel: | Macmillan Distribution |
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Publikováno: | 2015 |
Formát: | paperback 272 stran |
Anotace
Few Europeans in the twentieth century have been subject to the
repeated buffetings by foreign powers, ideologically driven
transformations and internal upheaval of the Czechs and the
Slovaks. The period of Communist rule was complex, and those who
gleefully overthrew the regime in 1989 were the very grandchildren
of those who had voted for Communism with hope in the free
elections of 1946.This concise account includes both political and
social history, analysing half a century of Communism from at all
strata of society. Kevin McDermott is equally intrigued by those in
power and ordinary citizens, asking what motivates a young Czech
worker-believer to join the Communist Party in the early 1950s,
enrol in the People's Militia and remain in the party during the
dark years of 'normalisation', yet end up welcoming the tearing
down of the Berlin Wall in 1989.Using Czech and Slovak archival
sources and the most recent historiography, McDermott challenges
the still dominant 'totalitarian' paradigm and argues that the
forty year communist experience in Czechoslovakia cannot simply be
dismissed as a Soviet-imposed aberration.
Kategorie
Knihovnické kódy
- EAN: 9780230217157