Late Communist Elites and the Demise of State Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1986-1989)

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Late Communist Elites and the Demise of State Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1986-1989)

Original language description

The chapter is a revised version of an article published in journal Soudobé dějiny [Contemporary History] in 2012. It deals with the crisis of the ruling elites at the demise of Communism in Czechoslovakia. The disintegration of the official communist language, along with new values of authenticity, individual efforts, and efficiency, had a specific outcome: since the representatives of the ruling elites lacked the ability to react to sudden situations, their response to the destabilization (of ideology and power) was to show uncertainty, &quot;disappointment&quot; or &quot;unpreparedness&quot;. The article focuses on the specific disintegration of late Communist elite groupings, which played a significant role in the collapse of the dictatorship in 1989.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Making Sense of Dictatorship. Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945

ISBN

978-963-386-427-2

Number of pages of the result

19

Pages from-to

61-79

Number of pages of the book

267

Publisher name

Central European University Press

Place of publication

Budapest - New York

UT code for WoS chapter

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