За идейно-политическия профил на чехословашката Харта’77
The Ideological and Political Profile of the Czechoslovak Charter’77

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the ideological and political roots of the dissident movement in Czechoslovakia its active participations. After the Warsaw Treaty invasion in 1968 the regime of Gustav Husak started mass purges in the Party which mostly affected the intelligentsia. It was precisely the soul of the Prague Spring and for this reason the “normalization” regime threw it out from the Party. It did not meet its fate uncomplainingly and expressed its protest in different ways: from the underground extremist groups of the so-called New Left to the alternative “Socialist Movement of Czechoslovak Citizens”. A paradoxical situation was created in which the communists were simultaneously in power and in opposition. Although in the early 70s the Husak regime had already stifled these forms of protest, the reform-inspired intelligentsia kept silent only for a short time. After the Helsinki Conference in 1975, like in the USSR and Poland, in Czechoslovakia also emerged the so-called dissident movement in which it took a most active part. In this manner, already at its establishment the dissident movement in Czechoslovakia united the two wings of the intelligentsia – the socialist and the non-socialist. This was possible due to the universal character of the Charter – it was not oriented in the political space right-left but called for the observance of the laws in the country.

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