The origins of postcommunist elites : from Prague Spring to the breakup of Czechoslovakia /

The origins of postcommunist elites : from Prague Spring to the breakup of Czechoslovakia /

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Author / Creator:	Eyal, Gil.
Imprint:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
Description:	xxix, 238 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Contradictions ; 17 Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 17.
Subject:	Intervention in Czechoslovakia (1968) Post-communism -- Czech Republic. Post-communism -- Slovakia. Politics and government Post-communism. Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1968-1989 -- Philosophy. Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1989-1992 -- Philosophy. Czechoslovakia -- History -- Intervention, 1968. Czech Republic. Czechoslovakia. Slovakia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4924208

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ISBN:	0816640319 (HC : alk. paper) 0816640327 (PB : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-229) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1.. The Idea of the New Class
2.. The 1968 Purges and Their Consequences
3.. The Power of Antipolitics
4.. Games of the Upper Class
5.. The Making and Breaking of the Postcommunist Political Field
Conclusion
Appendix. The Elite and General Population Surveys
Notes
Index