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Jan Culik - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Prague Spring dubcek the media and mass demoralisation
2018Co-Authors: Jan CulikAbstract:An article outlining the progress and the characteristics of the 1968 Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia and its aftermath.
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rozhovor britských listů 179 proc lidi dnes vůbec nerozuměji jake bylo pražske jaro britske listy interview 179 why people these days do not understand at all what the 1968 Prague Spring was about
2018Co-Authors: Jan Culik, Bohumil KartousAbstract:Jan Culik experienced the 1968 Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact military invasion of Czechoslovakia as a fifteen-year-old in Prague. The events have made a lifelong impact on his thinking and behaviour. In this interview, he discusses with Bohumil Kartous the values, the cultural achievements and the philosophy of the liberal 1960s in Czechoslovakia, which later culminated in the intoxicatingly free months of the 1968 Prague Spring. It is a matter of regret that these events are on the whole thoroughly misunderstood in contemporary Czech Republic, being misinterpreted by popular Czech feature films such as Rebelove (Rebels) and Pelisky (Cosy Dens), which were made by young directors who while pretending they were making films about the 1960s, in fact constructed mendacious images based on their experiences from the post-invasion, highly oppressive period of "normalisation" in Czechoslovakia of the 1970s and 1980s. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz from 24th August, 2018.
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cold war conversations 17 eyewitness to Prague Spring
2018Co-Authors: Ian Sanders, Jan CulikAbstract:In this podcast, created for the website Cold War Conversations, Ian Sanders talks to Jan Culik about his experiences of life in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and 1970s and about what he witnessed as a 15-year-old during the 1968 Prague Spring.
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a personal testimony what was going on during the 1968 Prague Spring
2018Co-Authors: Jan CulikAbstract:A personal account of the momentous events during the 1968 Prague Spring, as experienced by Glasgow University Senior Lecturer Dr. Jan Culik when he was 15 years old.
Skalecká Veronika - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Directing and control of regional media in Czechoslovakia in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century based on the example of media reflection of culture events in Pardubice district
2019Co-Authors: Skalecká VeronikaAbstract:This dissertation thesis addresses the history of public relations of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia in Pardubice district. It is focussed at the period of so-called normalization. Firstly, it discusses the historical context of the time for understanding the crisis of the system in 70s and 80s. The first chapters describe so-called Prague Spring and military invasion in August 1968. Next chapters stress changes in politics and media after the election of Gustáv Husák to become First Secretary of the Communist Party in April, 1969. The second part of text is case study about Pardubice district. The main topic of dissertation thesis are newspaper of Pardubice district - Zář. But there are also chapters about radio, factory newspaper, regional Union of Czech Journalists or College in Pardubice and editors of student magazine. In the second part of case study attention is focussed on cultural section of newspaper Zář and its main topics - for example political anniversaries and the role of culture. In cultural section I analyze which information and how they were, or were not presented to public. Supervision and control over the media content was one of the main regime's tools to take over the culture area and its presentation
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Directing and control of regional media in Czechoslovakia in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century based on the example of media reflection of culture events in Pardubice district
Univerzita Karlova Fakulta sociálních věd, 2019Co-Authors: Skalecká VeronikaAbstract:Tato disertační práci se zabývá působením tiskových orgánů Komunistické strany Československa v okrese Pardubice v období tzv. normalizace. Pro pochopení krize systému v 70. a 80. letech je nutné zabývat se nejprve tím, co jí předcházelo. V textu je tedy nejprve stručně popsán vývoj v období tzv. pražského jara v Československu a následné vojenské invaze v srpnu 1968. Poté jsou sledovány jednotlivé kroky k normalizaci - zejména změny v politice a médiích, které následovaly po zvolení Gustáva Husáka prvním tajemníkem KSČ v dubnu 1969. Následuje případová studie, která se zabývá okresem Pardubice. Hlavním tématem práce jsou pardubické okresní noviny Zář, text se však okrajově věnuje rovněž rozhlasu, závodním časopisům, východočeské pobočce Svazu českých novinářů nebo pardubické vysoké škole a osudu redaktorů studentského časopisu. V druhé části případové studie je pozornost upřena na kulturní rubriku novin Zář a její hlavní témata - například politická výročí a roli kultury. Analýza kulturní rubriky ukazuje, o čem se v ní během normalizace (ne)psalo a jakým způsobem. To bylo jedním z nástrojů, jímž si režim nad oblastí kultury a nad její prezentací veřejnosti zajišťoval kontrolu.This dissertation thesis addresses the history of public relations of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia in Pardubice district. It is focussed at the period of so-called normalization. Firstly, it discusses the historical context of the time for understanding the crisis of the system in 70s and 80s. The first chapters describe so-called Prague Spring and military invasion in August 1968. Next chapters stress changes in politics and media after the election of Gustáv Husák to become First Secretary of the Communist Party in April, 1969. The second part of text is case study about Pardubice district. The main topic of dissertation thesis are newspaper of Pardubice district - Zář. But there are also chapters about radio, factory newspaper, regional Union of Czech Journalists or College in Pardubice and editors of student magazine. In the second part of case study attention is focussed on cultural section of newspaper Zář and its main topics - for example political anniversaries and the role of culture. In cultural section I analyze which information and how they were, or were not presented to public. Supervision and control over the media content was one of the main regime's tools to take over the culture area and its presentation.Department of Media StudiesKatedra mediálních studiíFakulta sociálních vědFaculty of Social Science
Matthew Stibbe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ideological offensive the east german leadership the Prague Spring and the warsaw pact invasion of august 1968
2018Co-Authors: Matthew StibbeAbstract:Stibbe provides a detailed analysis of East German reactions to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. His main emphasis is on the ideological challenge that Dubcek’s reforms posed to the GDR variant of state socialism, and he places this within the broader framework of triangular relations between East Germany, West Germany and Czechoslovakia. He explores East German leader Walter Ulbricht’s role in the broader Warsaw Pact deliberations that led to military intervention, and his reaction to Moscow’s last-minute decision not to deploy GDR ground troops on Czechoslovak territory. He also explains why the Stasi were particularly concerned about the political reliability of students, even though most students seemed passive and loyal to the regime in the wake of the invasion.
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eastern europe in 1968 responses to the Prague Spring and warsaw pact invasion
2018Co-Authors: Kevin Mcdermott, Matthew StibbeAbstract:This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and specific Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, the Baltic States), together with two chapters on Czechoslovakia and one each on East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania. The individual contributions explain why most of these communist regimes opposed Alexander Dubcek’s reforms and supported the Soviet-led military intervention in August 1968, and why some stood apart. They also explore public reactions in Eastern Europe to the events of 1968, including instances of popular opposition to the crushing of the Prague Spring, expressions of loyalty to Soviet-style socialism, and cases of indifference or uncertainty. Among the many complex legacies of the East European ‘1968’ was the development of new ways of thinking about regional identity, state borders, de-Stalinisation and the burdens of the past.
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the Prague Spring and warsaw pact invasion through the soviet and east european lens
2018Co-Authors: Kevin Mcdermott, Matthew StibbeAbstract:McDermott and Stibbe place the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in the context of broader global upheavals in the year 1968, and then explain what these challenges to the post-war order looked like from the more regionally-specific perspective of Soviet and East European actors. Reponses to Dubcek’s reforms, both in Czechoslovakia and in neighbouring communist countries, were complex and varied. The chapter looks at how and why the ‘Warsaw Pact Five’ (the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria) reached a decision to intervene militarily in August 1968, and why Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania opposed this move. It also demonstrates how the invasion led to new and diverse ways of thinking about the state, patriotism, geography and borders across the region.
Kevin Mcdermott - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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eastern europe in 1968 responses to the Prague Spring and warsaw pact invasion
2018Co-Authors: Kevin Mcdermott, Matthew StibbeAbstract:This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and specific Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, the Baltic States), together with two chapters on Czechoslovakia and one each on East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania. The individual contributions explain why most of these communist regimes opposed Alexander Dubcek’s reforms and supported the Soviet-led military intervention in August 1968, and why some stood apart. They also explore public reactions in Eastern Europe to the events of 1968, including instances of popular opposition to the crushing of the Prague Spring, expressions of loyalty to Soviet-style socialism, and cases of indifference or uncertainty. Among the many complex legacies of the East European ‘1968’ was the development of new ways of thinking about regional identity, state borders, de-Stalinisation and the burdens of the past.
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the Prague Spring and warsaw pact invasion through the soviet and east european lens
2018Co-Authors: Kevin Mcdermott, Matthew StibbeAbstract:McDermott and Stibbe place the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in the context of broader global upheavals in the year 1968, and then explain what these challenges to the post-war order looked like from the more regionally-specific perspective of Soviet and East European actors. Reponses to Dubcek’s reforms, both in Czechoslovakia and in neighbouring communist countries, were complex and varied. The chapter looks at how and why the ‘Warsaw Pact Five’ (the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria) reached a decision to intervene militarily in August 1968, and why Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania opposed this move. It also demonstrates how the invasion led to new and diverse ways of thinking about the state, patriotism, geography and borders across the region.
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the anti Prague Spring neo stalinist and ultra leftist extremism in czechoslovakia 1968 70
2018Co-Authors: Kevin Mcdermott, Vitězslav SommerAbstract:McDermott and Sommer’s chapter focuses on an important, but under-researched controversy in the history of the Prague Spring: the beliefs, mentalities and impact of the ultra-reactionary ‘neo-Stalinists’ in the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Conventional wisdom has it that the party and nation stood solidly behind Dubcek’s reforms, aside from a tiny band of ‘traitors’. The authors suggest that while the bulk of party activists broadly supported the ‘renewal process’, there was a tenacious core of sectarians vocally promoting the thesis that ‘counter-revolution’ was stalking Czechoslovakia and, crucially, such ideas influenced large swathes of regional officials, party members and industrial workers. McDermott and Sommer conclude that these diffuse anti-reformist undercurrents were mobilised after the invasion to affect the relatively smooth transition from the Prague Spring to ‘normalisation’.
Mary Heimann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the greengrocer and his tv the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring by paulina bren
The English Historical Review, 2011Co-Authors: Mary HeimannAbstract:Paulina Bren has produced a witty and thought-provoking analysis of Czechoslovak culture during ‘Normalisation’, the years which followed the forced ending to the 1968 Prague Spring. The ‘TV’ in the title is Communist-controlled Czechoslovak state television of the 1970s and 1980s. The ‘greengrocer’ is the compliant Czechoslovak Everyman (as described in Vaclav Havel's essay ‘The Power of the Powerless’) who unthinkingly places the slogan ‘Workers of the World Unite’ in his shop window, thereby subtly increasing the pressure on his fellow-citizens similarly to conform to the norms of the ‘post-totalitarian’ regime under which they live. As in the story of the Emperor's new clothes, the implication in Havel's essay, which was written in 1978, is that the entire edifice of Communist power would crumble the moment that ordinary people chose to stop colluding with the regime's official lies and opted instead to ‘live in truth’. Bren's fresh look at Czechoslovakia in the 1970s helps to explain why they might not have wanted to do so.
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the scheming apparatchik of the Prague Spring
Europe-Asia Studies, 2008Co-Authors: Mary HeimannAbstract:This volume has been published to coincide with the anniversaries of two significant milestones in Czech and Slovak history - the establishment of communist rule in 1948 and the Prague Spring of 1968 - and in anticipation of the 20th anniversary of the 1989 'Velvet Revolution'. Given the ultimate failure of the communist system, these events and their legacy for Czech and Slovak society and politics merit continued study, particularly given the wealth of new data made available when state and Party archives were finally opened in the 1990s. The essays in this volume, by witnesses, historians and social scientists from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the USA, UK and Australia offer a reappraisal of those turbulent events. They present new and original research, based on information from archives which were not opened until after 1990 and which is not yet available to audiences who do not speak Czech or Slovak. This volume will, therefore, be of interest to both specialists and general readers who are curious to learn more about these events.
