Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2009
Abstract
The author analyses the topic of housing in the so-called normalisation period in Czechoslovakia from the perspective of macro and micro history. In the first part of the article she introduces the social, political and demographical conditions of the 1970s and 1980s, and she analyses the contemporary housing acts.
The second part of the article is divided into three parts (Housing as a creative struggle with norms, Housing as an instrument of political and social control, Housing as social security) and it deals with the analysis of narrators‘ testimonies in regard to housing during the normalisation period in Czechoslovakia.