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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89
    sub title: a political and social history
  name:
    name part: McDermott, Kevin
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 252 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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, analyzing 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, enroll in the People's Militia and remain in the party during the dark years of 'normalization,' 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.
  table of contents: Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms -- Glossary of Leading Figures -- Presidents of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1945-89 -- Timeline : 1945-89 -- A Note on Czech Pronunciation -- Introduction: Communist Czechoslovakia in Historical Perspective -- 1. Communism on the Road to Power, 1945-48 -- 2. Stalinism Reigns, 1948-53 -- 3. Social Crisis and the Limits of Reform, 1953-67 -- 4. Czechoslovak Spring, 1968-69 -- 5. Everyday Normalisation, 1969-88 -- 6. 1989 : The Demise of Communism -- Conclusion: Into the Dustbin of History?
  note: Kevin McDermott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-cs---
  subject:
    geographic: Czechoslovakia
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1945-1992
  subject:
    geographic: Czechoslovakia
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1945-1992
  subject:
    topic: Communism
    geographic: Czechoslovakia
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Komunistická strana Československa
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: Czechoslovakia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Communism
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Czechoslovakia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Social classes
    geographic: Czechoslovakia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Modern / General
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  classification: DB2218.7 .M37 2015
  classification: 943.704
  related item:
    title info:
      title: European history in perspective (Palgrave (Firm))
  identifier: 9780230217140
  identifier: 0230217141
  identifier: 9780230217157
  identifier: 023021715X
  identifier: 2015023394
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150811
    record change date: 20170928135454.0
    record identifier: in00003595240