Creating a New Democratic System and the Problem of Overcoming the Communist Past: The Czech Case

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Authors	KOPEČEK Lubomír
Year of publication	2009
Type	Conference abstract
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
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Description	The end of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989 has opened the thorny question of how to deal with the communist legacy. This paper focuses on important aspects of decommunization at the beginning of the 1990s and analyses the role they played in the disintegration of the Civic Forum and in the emergence of the Civic Democratic Party. The paper shows that the decommunization agenda gradually became a significant divisive factor within the Civic Forum and served as one of the key issues through which the Civic Democratic Party defined itself. It also provided an opportunity for politicians skilled enough to grasp this issue to do so and to incorporate it into their wider political agendas.
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