Contesting communism after its fall: exploring two modes of anti-communist activism in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2018.1423966" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2018.1423966</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2018.1423966" target="_blank" >10.1080/21599165.2018.1423966</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Contesting communism after its fall: exploring two modes of anti-communist activism in the Czech Republic

Original language description

This article focuses on anti-communist activism in the postcommunist context. It follows political process theory in order to analyse the basic characteristics and trend of anti-communist protests in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2011 and attempts to propose various paths through which the frequency of these protests has increased. First, it differentiates between the dynamics of anti-communism in the transition and post-transition periods and shows that anti-communism has become a stable political phenomenon in Czech politics. Second, it defines two modes of anti-communist activism and describes their basic characteristics: while anti-communist claim-making is mostly driven by political parties, anti-communist framing has become a more widespread tool of political activism. Finally, it combines the concepts of political space and political threats to identify conditions supportive of heightened anti-communist protest. It concludes that political elites and their strategies play a key role in promoting anti-communist mobilizations as a tool against communist but also other left political actors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

East European Politics

ISSN

2159-9165

e-ISSN

2159-9173

Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

6-26

UT code for WoS article

000433053100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85040997350