The Prague Spring as a Laboratory

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Collegium Carolinum, Bad Wiessee, 26-29 October 2017. Edited by Martin Schulze Wessel.

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. 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. With contributions by Thomas M. Bohn, Johannes Gleixner, Martin Franc et al. VI,304 Seiten, gebunden (Bad Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum; Band 40/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2019) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear