After Utopia: Czechoslovak Normalization between Experiment and Experience, 1968 1989 (Bad Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum. - Band 041) (Bad Wiesseer Tagungen Des Collegium Carolinum, 41)

Christiane Brenner

ISBN 10: 3525336144 / ISBN 13: 9783525336144

Published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022

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406 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: After Utopia: Czechoslovak Normalization between Experiment and Experience, 1968 1989 (Bad Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum. - Band 041) (Bad Wiesseer Tagungen Des Collegium Carolinum, 41)
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3525336144
• ISBN 13: 9783525336144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 6.08 kilograms

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Synopsis

The HusAk government that came into power after the suppression of the Prague Spring formulated the goal of restoring "normality" in Czechoslovakia. It revoked prior reforms and initiated widespread "cleansing measures" and repression. Most notably, however, it lacked a clear vision for the future. The contributions in this volume show that the 1970s and 1980s were nevertheless not a time of complete stagnation. Efforts at restoration and modernization frequently existed simultaneously and counteractively. The essays discuss this contradictoriness and the often invisible dynamics of the normalization period exemplarily. A further key topic is the normalization's echo in literature, remembrance culture, and historiography.