Description: Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89 : A Political and Social History, Paperback by McDermott, Kevin, ISBN 023021715X, ISBN-13 9780230217157, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89 : A Political and Social Histor
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89 :A Political and Social History
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Sociology / General, History & Theory, World / European, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.4 Oz
Author: Kevin Mcdermott
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: European History in Perspective Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
