Czech revision
- Created by: evacharlotte14
- Created on: 01-07-16 14:39
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- 1949 - 1968
- 1963 - 1968, TV directed by Jin Pelikan, replaced by Jan Zelenka after Prague Spring, 1968
- 1968 Prague Spring
- 1968 Soviet + Warsaw Pact Invasion
- 1968 Action Programme
- 1950s = switch to heavy industry in 5 year plans
- de-stalinization process implemented by Krushchev
- little effect in C/S, until 1960
- 1960 -1962 = productivity downturn
- thirty-sixers founded by Havel, 1952
- January1962 - Dubcek= GeneralSecutary, Svoboda = president, replacement of Novotny
- 1953 = 20,000 Czech workers demonstrate in Prague
- 1949 = Gottwald initiates purges - failure of desired results
- 1967 = new censorship regime imposed
- student protest in Prague,supressed by fore
- feb. 1968 = 20th anniversary of Communist rule in C/S
- 1968 = removal of corrupt hierarchies, government becoming more self-governing
- March 1968 = Dubcekcalled to Dresden WarsawPact Conference to explain the free media etc.
- Warsaw Pact not yet seen as threat
- May '68 = purges of remaining Novotnyites
- fall of Dubcek= 1968, not replied until 1969
- 1969 - 1988
- Dubcek succeeded in his position of General Secretary in 1969 by Husak
- failure to support Smrkvosky in 1969 - hockey match against Russia, where C/S won
- 1970 = screening commissions set up, as a way of 'peaceful' purging of Communist members
- 1968 invasion had to be referred to as 'fraternal intervention'
- approx. 50,000 CP members purged or resigned
- no violent purges - 'humane terror'
- interested in the political options of the Prague Spring - manipulation of people; wanted them to be able to show flexibility, to admit their participation and to present their change
- purges 'killed minds, not bodies'
- HRM collapse in 1969 - 20 memebersrounded
- 1975 = negotiations of the Helsinki Final Accord, signed in 1976
- March 1976 = arrest offend members
- 1972 - 1975 = period of 'atomisation and disintegration of opposition' - Havel
- 1969 - censorship of the media re-implemented
- communism without ideology, 1969 - 1989
- 1975 = approx. 90% of households had a TV set
- 'the soviet person had the right to relax in front of the tevelsiion after [a] day's work' - Brezhnev
- Zelenka = headed TV
- soaps etc. from 1969 aimed to de-legitimise the Prague Spring
- Zelenka = headed TV
- 'the soviet person had the right to relax in front of the tevelsiion after [a] day's work' - Brezhnev
- Dubcek succeeded in his position of General Secretary in 1969 by Husak
- 1989 - 1998
- 17 - 18th November 1989 = student demonstrations in Prague
- 27th Nov. = general strike also planned
- 19th Nov. = foundations of Citizens Forum in Prague
- 20th Nov. = foundations of Public Against Violence in Slovakia
- 19th - 21st Nov. = demonstrations in Prague for democratic reforms
- 23rd Nov. = 10,000 worgers from CKD plant join demo
- 26th Nov. = CF meeting with CPCz; CF manifesto published
- 28th Nov. = continued 'round table' discussions
- 29th Nov. = collapse of CPCz party work place organisations + dropping of Marxism-Leninism as state ideology
- 30th Nov. = dismantling of Czech-Austia border
- 3rd Dec. = new provisional government = 5/20 ministers are communists
- 4th Dec. = more demostrations
- 5th. Dec. = forced government re-shuffle
- 6th Dec. = independent trade unions formed
- 7th Dec. = resignation of Prime Minister Adamec
- 29th Dec. = Havel elected president by the Federal Assembly
- 1989 = self dissolution workers' militias
- 1990 = Civic Forum and Slovak Public Against Violence win elections
- 1992 elections = victory for right in Czech, but the left = 60% of Slovak votes
- 23rd July 1992 = Bratislava meeting between Klaus and Meciar
- 17 - 18th November 1989 = student demonstrations in Prague
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