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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.
Nov 1, 2022 · Matthew Stibbe & Kevin McDermott. 230 Accesses. Abstract. The era of 'normalisation' following the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 is conventionally perceived as a return to hard-line communist policies aimed at totally reversing the reforms of the Prague Spring.
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1968 and Beyond: From the Prague Spring to “Normalization”. 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 ...
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Key themes include the Communist Party and ideology; State Security; Slovak developments; ‘auto-normalisation’; women and gender; cultural and intellectual currents; everyday life and popular opinion; and Czechoslovakia’s political and cultural relationship with the USSR, the GDR, Poland and Yugoslavia.
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
Nov 1, 2022 · This chapter deals with the specific features of Slovak development in the 1970s and 1980s. The normalisation regime had the same objectives in both the Czech lands and Slovakia, but the tactics on how to reach them differed. The post-1968 communist leadership...
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 ...
