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Double rebirth. The Czechoslovak people´s arty 1989-1992
Gjuričová, Adéla
The text depicts the ways in which the Czechoslovak People’s Party (ČSL) formulated, re-told, or otherwise dealt with its own past within the socialist dictatorship and the communist past in general. It is suggested that the rhetorical figure of „party rebirth“ made it possible to leave out the fourty years‘ collaborationist existence and to tie the post-1989 democratic phase directly to pre-1948 ČSL. Yet another rebirth under Josef Lux left out even the leaders of the first rebirth, including Josef Bartončík and the scandal of his cooperation with the secret police. However, both of the turns have built on the idea of a „healthy undercurrent“ of the ordinary party members that carry on the party’s „real identity“ whatever the time and regime.
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The impossible return. Czech exile after November 1989
Zahradníček, Tomáš
Czech political exile in the 1990s are critically responded to the state of the country. The study examines why the extremely critical complaints began to reverberate soon after 1989 and recalls earlier discussions between exile and home, between exile politics and Charter 77, which have already appeared moments earlier misunderstandings, which after 1989 became important parts of the czech public debate.
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Introduction
Gjuričová, Adéla
The introduction explains the conference topics, depicts some remarkable points of the conference discussions, and refers to texts that could not be included in the volume.
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"1989-2009: Society. History. Politics". Collection of conference papers
Gjuričová, Adéla
The conference saw presentations by researchers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, France, Britain and the USA. The selected texts do not build on a reconstruction of 1989 events or the concept of „coming to terms with the communist past“, instead they focus on interesting (dis)continuities of the twenty years after 1989 with the 1970s and 1980s.
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