Reform Efforts in the Czech and Slovak Communist Parties and Their Successors, 1988-1993
Reform Efforts in the Czech and Slovak Communist Parties and Their Successors, 1988-1993
Author(s): Anna Grzymała-BusseSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Communism, Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Czechoslovak Communist Party; reforms in communist parties; communist parties successor; political history;
Summary/Abstract: Reform efforts in the Slovak and Czech Communist parties in the late 1980s have largely gone unnoticed. The prevailing image of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (Komunisticka Strana Československa, KSC) was that of a stagnant, unreformable behemoth, the very image of party ossification after the Prague Spring of 1968 and the subsequent party purges. The expulsion of nearly a third of the party's members ( 450,000 in total) during the 1969-70 normalization campaign that followed the Spring was to have eliminated any overt reform movements left in the party. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 12/1998
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 442-471
- Page Count: 30
- Language: English
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