Metamorphosis: The Democratic Revolution in Czechoslovakia
Metamorphosis: The Democratic Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Author(s): Tony R. Judt
Subject(s): Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: In contrast with its Polish and Hungarian neighbors, Czechoslovakia in 1989 had undergone no gradual political liberalization, no partial economic reform. The regime put in place by Soviet tanks after 1968 was still there, its leaders and policies substantially unaltered. Conversely, the outcome of the country’s “velvet revolution” was a dismantling of communism more thorough and complete than anything achieved, to date, by its fellow former Soviet satellites. A discussion of the context of these changes and the problems that remain unresolved follows a brief account of how this situation came to be.

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