The Utopian Rationalism of the Prague Spring of 1968

0493026 - ÚSD 2019 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Suk, Jiří
The Utopian Rationalism of the Prague Spring of 1968.
American Historical Review. Roč. 123, č. 3 (2018), s. 764-768. ISSN 0002-8762. E-ISSN 1937-5239
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Keywords : socialist utopianism * Prague Spring 1968 * military intervention of August 21, 1968
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impact factor: 1.456, year: 2018

The author traces how the original communist utopia, based on simple Stalinist laws of development, was replaced by a reform utopianism in which a market economy would be regulated by an enlightened center, together with productive conflict among non-antagonistic interests and the unleashing of all the power of scientific and technological revolution.
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