Primavera de 1968: Praga sob tanques

Abstract

Czechoslovakia was a country with a short but complex existence. Since the country’s creation in 1918, to the seizure of power by the Communists in 1948 and the Prague Spring in 1968, the country has faced a multiplicity of political regimes and external interference. The problems of this work are related to understanding the processes that led to these events and the positions of the different subjects in action through their own texts, discourses, and documentation. It aims to understand the ways of procedure of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the civil resistance to the regime implanted. In the first chapter, we will discuss international politics and the historical, political, and social contexts involving the creation of the country until the moment that the Communist Party takes the power for itself. In the second chapter, we will analyze the government and the bureaucracy during the implemented regime, the attempt at democratization through by Prague Spring in 1968, and the country’s invasion by the Soviet Union. The methodology consists of bibliographic and literary analysis of the theme.