Social Criticism, False Liberalism, and Recent Changes in Czechoslovakia
Social Criticism, False Liberalism, and Recent Changes in Czechoslovakia
Author(s): Václav Klaus, Tomáš JežekSubject(s): Civil Society, Political history, Government/Political systems, Political economy, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Sociology of Politics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; social criticism; liberalism; political changes; revolutions; socialism; economic changes;
Summary/Abstract: This text had been written in September 1989, two months before the "velvet revolution" in Czechoslovakia. It does not mean that the authors were then subject to self-censorship. By no means. The intellectual climate prevailing in the Institute for Forecasting was then quite liberal and, at least for the people from the Institute, that November Revolution brought about no important change in this respect. Yet the text is influenced by the authors' pre-revolution state of mind, though this influence is delicate and rather complex. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 05/1991
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 26-40
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
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