The Prague Spring as Seen from Romania

The Prague Spring of 1968 played an important role in Vladimir Tismaneanu's family’s and the Romanian communist regime’s dynamics alike. The analysis that he applies today to the two totalitarianisms of the 20th century is inspired by professional and moral reasons. The emphasis is the signific...

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Published inSociologický časopis Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 414 - 422
Main Authors Tismăneanu, Vladimir, Stan, Marius
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Prague AV ČR Czech Academy of Sciences - Institute of Sociology 01.01.2018
AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Sociologický ústav
Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Subjects
20th century
Biographies
Cold War
Communism
Communist societies
Family relations
Family roles
Foreign policy
Intellectuals
Political leadership
Political parties
Politics
Socialism
Societal Essay
Stalinism
Students
SYMPOSIUM: REMEMBERING PRAGUE SPRING 1968
Teams
Totalitarianism
Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics > USSR
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Summary:The Prague Spring of 1968 played an important role in Vladimir Tismaneanu's family’s and the Romanian communist regime’s dynamics alike. The analysis that he applies today to the two totalitarianisms of the 20th century is inspired by professional and moral reasons. The emphasis is the significance of this anti-Stalinist trend which started in Prague in 1958, and that in the late 1960s, there was already a wind of intellectual awakening blowing through the Soviet team’s curtains, mostly linked and the result of the liberalising and revisionist ideas connected with the Prague Spring (and Eurocommunism in general).
ISSN:0038-0288
2336-128X