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Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89

A Political and Social History

September 11, 2015 | Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780230217157
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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.

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About this Author

Kevin McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

ISBN: 9780230217157
Format: Trade Paperback
Series: European History in Perspective
Pages: 272
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015-09-11

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