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The Ideal of Parliament in Europe since 1800
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SYSNO ASEP 0521123 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Too Ideal to Be a Parliament. The Representative Assemblies in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989 Author(s) Gjuričová, Adéla (USD-C) ORCID Source Title The Ideal of Parliament in Europe since 1800. - London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 / Aerts R. ; van Baalen C. ; te Velde H. ; van der Steen M. ; Recker M.-L. - ISBN 978-3-030-27704-8 Pages s. 199-217 Number of pages 19 s. Number of pages 279 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords parliamentary history ; communist dictatorship ; Czechoslovak parliament 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) R&D Projects LTV17011 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Institutional support USD-C - RVO:68378114 DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-27705-5 Annotation Gjuričová offers a provocative perspective by bringing the neglected topic of parliaments in Communist dictatorships in discussion. Using the case of Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989, she demonstrates that the institution of elected legislatures had formally never ceased to exist, yet in practice, the electoral and legislative process remained under full control of the Communist Party. The paper provides a summary of the Communist doctrine on parliaments and confronts it with the practical aims and functioning of the Socialist „representative assemblies” in different periods, such as in the Stalinist 1950s, during the Prague Spring reforms in 1968, in the perestroika period, and during the 1989 revolution and the democratic reforms. It concludes that Socialist legislatures seemed almost ideal, in fact „too ideal to be real parliaments”. Workplace Institute for Contemporary History Contact Gabriela Golasová, golasova@usd.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 286 365 Year of Publishing 2020
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