The Prague Spring as a Laboratory (Hardcover)

Vorstand des Collegium Carolinum

ISBN 10: 352535598X / ISBN 13: 9783525355985

Editore: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG, 2019

Hardcover. Retrospectively, the Prague Spring appears to have been a coherent but unsuccessful experiment in finding a synthesis of Western democracy and socialism. However, this perspective ignores that different groups and individuals participated in these developments and shaped the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia with their completely varying professional, generational, national, and gender-specific experiences. What appears retrospectively as a goal-oriented reform movement or as an 'interrupted revolution' looked in the eyes of the protagonists rather like the situation in a laboratory, where they worked on new syntheses with uncertain results. The volume focuses on the protagonists' ideas of politics, society, and their reform plans. Of particular interest is the question which new thoughts about the interrelation of politics, science, economics, and arts were developed in Czechoslovakia. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9783525355985

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Retrospectively, the Prague Spring appears to have been a coherent but unsuccessful experiment in finding a synthesis of Western democracy and socialism. However, this perspective ignores that different groups and individuals participated in these developments and shaped the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia with their completely varying professional, generational, national, and gender-specific experiences. What appears retrospectively as a goal-oriented reform movement or as an 'interrupted revolution' looked in the eyes of the protagonists rather like the situation in a laboratory, where they worked on new syntheses with uncertain results. The volume focuses on the protagonists' ideas of politics, society, and their reform plans. Of particular interest is the question which new thoughts about the interrelation of politics, science, economics, and arts were developed in Czechoslovakia.

Informazioni sull'autore: Martin Schulze Wessel, Jahrgang 1962, hat seit 2003 den Lehrstuhl für die Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas an der LMU München inne und ist Leiter des Collegium Carolinum, Forschungsinstitut für die Geschichte Tschechiens und der Slowakei, in München.Er studierte Neuere und Osteuropäische Geschichte und Slavistik in München, Moskau und Berlin. Er wurde an der Freien Universität Berlin mit einer Doktorarbeit über "Russlands Blick auf Preußen (1697-1947)" promoviert und habilitierte sich an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg mit einer vergleichenden religionshistorischen Studie zur Gemeindegeistlichkeit in Russland und den böhmischen Länder bzw. der Tschechoslowakei (1848-1922). Er ist Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Leiter des Historischen Kollegs München.

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Titolo: The Prague Spring as a Laboratory (Hardcover)
Casa editrice: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: new