Reconciling antinomies of “actually existing socialism”
The national and international in late socialist Czechoslovakia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12190182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Mervart (0000-0003-1370-4683, Babeș-Bolyai University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 483-498 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in East European Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0925-9392 • E-ISSN: 1573-0948 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11212-025-09762-6 |
| OpenAlex | W4414711148 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
After 1968, the Marxist-Leninist theory in Czechoslovakia was based on a strict rejection of reformist tendencies. The turbulent year 1968 was seen, among other things, as the result of nationalist counter-revolutionary tendencies, which were put to an end by the “internationalist” aid of Warsaw Pact armies. Late Czechoslovak socialism was, however, also based on a patriotic conception that emphasized domestic socialist traditions. This study aims to analyze the presence of the seemingly contradictory pairing of “national” and “international” in the Marxist-Leninist theory of late socialism. In particular, the author will pay attention to the attempts to reconcile the internal contradiction of national and international into a single socialist whole and will suggest what consequences the failure of this concept had for post-communist developments in the East-Central European region
Contradiction · International political economy · International relations · Nationalism · Political philosophy · Socialism · European history and politics · German History and Society · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |