CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Andelová, Kristina |
|---|---|
| Title | Alternative Czech Leftist Discourses on History during the Early 1990s |
| Summary | The collapse of communist regimes instigated a strong belief that liberal democracy was the sole democratic model that should constitute a new political order. This conviction was closely connected with the new reinterpretations of national histories and rediscovery of new “national traditions”. In the Czech case, a new dominant liberal-conservative interpretation of Czech historical development appeared, which was based on emphasizing liberal democratic traditions and the Czech affiliation to the West. However prevailing this interpretation was, alternative voices existed in Czech society as well which refused such conceptions of Czech historical development and provided an alternative historical interpretation. Within the Czech Left alternative discourses existed which articulated a specific interpretation of the Czech post-war development and at the same time provided an alternative interpretation of the changes following 1989. In the case of the Czech left, the legacy of and inspiration from the 1989 democratic revolutions and their political thought is not merely a confirmation of Western liberal democratic values. It provides a variety of ways and modes of thinking, which remained present in the post-1989 political discourse and which led to formulations of alternative concepts of democracy and historical “democratic traditions”. |
| Supervisor | Balázs Trencsényi |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/andelova_kristina.pdf |
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