MCDERMOTT, Kevin (2010). Popular resistance in Communist Czechoslovakia : The Plzeň Uprising, June 1953. Contemporary European History, 19 (4), 287-307.
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This article examines an important, but little-known, event in the history of post-war Czechoslovakia: the Plzeň uprising of June 1953. After outlining the context, processes and outcomes of the revolt, I argue that the disorders were less an expression of ubiquitous political and ideological resistance to the communist regime than a reflection of the disastrous socio-economic conditions and the breakdown in relations between party and workers at the point of production. I also maintain that the conventional wisdom of the ‘Stalinised’ Communist Party of Czechoslovakia as a fully fledged ‘totalitarian’ party is in many ways wide of the mark. Finally, the uprising prompted the party's tentative turn towards a ‘New Course’ and eventually a strategy of ‘socialist consumerism’.
Item Type: | Article |
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Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Humanities Research Centre |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S096077731000024X |
Page Range: | 287-307 |
Depositing User: | Lorna Greaves |
Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2012 13:39 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 20:15 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5903 |
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