Propaganda stories in Czechoslovakia in the late 1980s: Believe it or not?

Hejlová, Denisa; Klimeš, David

doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2018.08.005

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“…The second category is the elites of interwar Czechoslovakia [2]. (C) The third sort of the Czech elites is the artificially created communist nomenklatura ruling elite [3]. (D) The fourth group of the Czech elites is the Czech post-communist elite and its individual segments: it has been composed of the former communist nomenklatura, the newcomers and the former counter-elite; e.g.…”

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The Impact of the Political Regimes on the Interpretation of the Proto-Czechs, the Oldest Generation of the Czech Elites and the Interwar Czechoslovak Elites

Cviklová

2020

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The role of the Proto-Czechs, the oldest generation of the elites and the interwar elites in the national memory can be advanced by showing the examples of the impact of the political regimes on the interpretation of the symbolic role of the individual elite members. The contribution draws on those concepts and methodological approaches that have been employed by the number of historians and historical sociologists such as historical consciousness, collective (social) memory and national memory; a major incentive for choice of the individual elite members were several sociological researchers on the Czech elites. The pluralist debates about the impact of the Czech elites and their contributions were launched in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and developed by the several generations of the Czech and the foreign historians. This thesis about the impact of the political regimes on the interpretation of the contributions of the Czech elites can be illustrated by (1)the current importance of the Proto‒Czech elites such as Saint Wenceslaus I. [Svatý Václav], (Saints) Cyril and Methodius, Božena Němcová and Karel Havlíček Borovský, (2)the popularity of the members of the interwar political elite such as the economist Alois Rašín, the journalist Milena Jesenská, the politician Františka Plamínková and the diplomat Zdeněk Fierlinger, (3)the positive and negative reponse to the actions of the communist elites such as Rudolf Slánský, Klement Gottwald, Alexander Dubček and Gustav Husák and (4)the evaluation of the members of the communist counter-elite and later democratic elite such as Václav Havel and Petr Pithart.

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