Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2011
Abstract
The study is a result of long term research of five historians of Department of Post-1989 Democratic Transition History of the Institute for Contemporary History. It analyses the formation of Czech political culture and political and cultural identities after 1989 among the key political actors of the early 1990s (Civic Forum and Václav Havel) as well as among the key political parties (Civic Movement, Civic Democratic Party, Social Democracy, Christian parties, Civic Democratic Alliance, Communist Party) as well as some minor players (Moravian parties, far-right Republican Party).
The book shows that cleavages of the post-1989 Czech politics are not primarily formed by ideological differences but by experience of the communist past.