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State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia - Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Hardcover)
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State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia - Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Hardcover)
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Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly
established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution
that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a
socialist future. Although many aspects of this utopian project are
well known - such as fast-paced industrialisation, collectivisation
and urbanisation - the regimes even sought to transform the ways in
which their citizens interacted with each other and the world
around them. Using a unique analytical model based on an amalgam of
anthropology, sociology, history and extensive archival research,
award-winning scholar Roman Krakovsky here considers the
Czechoslovakian attempt to 'reinvent the world' - 'time' and
'space' included - in this all-encompassing way. Ranging from WWII
to the fall of the Berlin Wall, his innovative analysis variously
considers the impact of Stakhanovism, the impossible-to-achieve
production targets intended to assert socialism's future potential;
the attempt to replace Sunday's Christian attributes with socialist
ones; and the profound changes brought about to the public and
private spheres, including the culture of informing and the ways
this was circumvented. Across a wide range of case studies
Krakovsky demonstrates both the far-reaching extent of the
communist vision and the inherent flaws and contradictions that
gradually destabilised it. This in-depth perspective is vital
reading for all scholars of twentieth century history and politics.
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