A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Politics and Policies in Literary Historiography During the Periods of “Disobedience” (1963–1969) and “Normalization” (1969–1989)
Authors: Heczková Libuše, Parente-Čapková Viola
Editors: Steinby Liisa, Kalnačs Benedikts, Oshukov Mikhail, Parente-Čapková Viola
Publication year: 2024
Book title : The Politics of Literary History: Literary Historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990
ISBN: 978-3-031-18723-0
eISBN: 978-3-031-18724-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18724-7_13
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18724-7_13
The latter half of the 1960s was characterized by a slow but steady liberalization of the Czechoslovak society, culture and scholarship, culminating in the Prague Spring of 1968. The occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 signaled the onset of a period of “normalization”, i.e., a return to strict censorship and strong control by the Soviet-minded regime of all aspects of political and social life. Toward the end of the 1980s there were some signs of the regime loosening its control, but no real change took place before 1989.
