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In the history of Czechoslovakia, normalization (Czech: normalizace, Slovak: normalizácia) is a name commonly given to the period following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and up to the glasnost era of liberalization that began in the Soviet Union and its neighboring nations in 1987.
Normalization entailed thoroughgoing political repression and the return to ideological conformity consolidate the Husák leadership and remove reformers from leadership positions; revoke or modify the laws enacted by the reform movement; reestablish centralized control over the economy; reinstate the power of police authorities; and
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by Gina M. Peirce, Assistant Director Center for Russian and East European Studies University of Pittsburgh. Following the Communist Party’s forcible seizure of power in Czechoslovakia in 1948, the country was ruled by a highly repressive regime under the leadership of President Klement Gottwald.
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The chief objectives of Husák's normalization were the restoration of firm party rule and the reestablishment of Czechoslovakia's status as a committed member of the socialist bloc. The normalization process involved five interrelated steps: consolidate the Husák leadership and remove the reformers from leadership positions;
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Nov 16, 2021 · The Soviet leadership needed someone who could control the situation – and that someone could not be a known “apparatchik”. Gustáv Husák fit the bill and in April 1969, replaced Alexandr Dubček as...
Jan 10, 2012 · Gustáv Husák became the face of what Czechs know as the normalization, a period which saw the restoration of communist rule following the defeat of the Prague Spring of 1968.
Jun 11, 2019 · This article tries to analyze the early stages of normalization by looking at three dimensions which simultaneously played a part in this complex post-liberal situation. Important was not only political developments in Czechoslovakia as a whole, but also more specifically the situation in Slovakia, the homeland of Gustáv Husák, both communist ...