Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History. Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century

0485088 - ÚSD 2018 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Tůma, Oldřich
Alexander Dubček, a Czechoslovak Politician.
Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History. Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century. Stuttgart: ibidem, 2017 - (Vít, M.; Baran, M.), s. 357-370. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPSS), 170. ISBN 978-3-8382-1015-5
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : Alexander Dubček * politics * communism
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

This paper focuses on the role of Czechoslovak Communist politician Alexander Dubček, one of the preponderant figures of the Prague Spring of 1968. While in Slovakia Dubček is often cherished as a national hero of sorts, Czechs tend to be more critical of his role in politics. Interestingly, this is not due to any inter-national hostility, as Czechs understand Dubček as a figure of their owh history. The paper analyses key political and cultural circumstances that engendered this 'cool', rather critical attitude in comparison with the importance attributed to Dubček in the Slovak discourse.
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