The Prague Spring as a Laboratory: Proceedings of the Annual Confernece of Collegium Carolinum Bad Wiessee, 26-29 October 2017: 40 (Bad Wiesseer Tagungen Des Collegium Carolinum) - Hardcover

Martin Schulze Wessel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 352535598X ISBN 13: 9783525355985

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG, 2019

Synopsis

Retrospectively, the Prague Spring appears to have been a coherent but unsuccessful experiment in finding a synthesis of Western democracy and socialism. However, this perspective ignores that different groups and individuals participated in these developments and shaped the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia with their completely varying professional, generational, national, and gender-specific experiences. What appears retrospectively as a goal-oriented reform movement or as an 'interrupted revolution' looked in the eyes of the protagonists rather like the situation in a laboratory, where they worked on new syntheses with uncertain results. The volume focuses on the protagonists' ideas of politics, society, and their reform plans. Of particular interest is the question which new thoughts about the interrelation of politics, science, economics, and arts were developed in Czechoslovakia.

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About the Author

Martin Schulze Wessel is Professor of Eastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Gremany. He specializes in the history of religion in Eastern and East Central Europe, the history of empires in Eastern Europe, and historiography and historical thought in Russia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 352535598X
• ISBN 13: 9783525355985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312