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1989. The Chronopolitics of Revolution
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SYSNO ASEP 0576352 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title 1989. The Chronopolitics of Revolution Author(s) Colla, M. (GB)
Gjuričová, Adéla (USD-C) ORCIDSource Title History and Theory - ISSN 0018-2656
Roč. 62, č. 4 (2023), s. 45-65Number of pages 21 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords Velvet Revolution ; postcommunism ; chronopolitics Subject RIV AB - History OECD category History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support USD-C - RVO:68378114 UT WOS 001079875200001 EID SCOPUS 85173090944 DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12321 Annotation A failed effort at “reform from above” or a dramatic reassertion of “people power”? Almost thirty-five years on, studies of the Revolutions of 1989 continue to be framed by these two polarities. However, this historiographical focus has meant that scholars have often overlooked the actual content and character of protest itself. This article argues that one way of reinjecting agency and ideas back into our historical understanding of 1989 is through examining the chronopolitics of revolution: that is to say, by addressing how the control and interpretation of time became a political battlefield, a site of contention and negotiation, between Communist regimes, on the one hand, and political activists and society, on the other. Investigating events in the German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia, the article contains two central claims: first, that an interrogation of the concept of “chronopolitics” can provide a new angle by which to grasp the revolutionary character of “1989” and the democratic transformations that resulted and, second, by way of inversion, that a study of the temporal experiences across 1989 and the early 1990s can in turn shed light on the analytical value of “chronopolitics” more generally. Workplace Institute for Contemporary History Contact Gabriela Golasová, golasova@usd.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 286 365 Year of Publishing 2024 Electronic address https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12321
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