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The greengrocer and his TV : the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring /

The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders empl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bren, Paulina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "A criminal comedy but of a revivalist spirit" : the beginning and the end of the Prague Spring
  • Purge and the remaking of a socialist citizenry
  • Intellectuals, hysterics, and "real men" : the Prague Spring officially remembered
  • The quiet life versus a life in truth : writing the script for normalization
  • Broadcasting in the age of late communism
  • Jaroslav Dietl : normalization's narrator
  • The socialist family and its caretakers
  • Self-realization and the socialist way of life.