The Revolutionary Culture, Representations of New Man and Transformations of Authority in the Czechoslovakia after 1948 and in the Sovie Russia after 1917
2012
Abstract
The chapter is concerned with the concept of revolutionary culture and its possible usage for examination of ideological and societal changes in the Czechoslovakia after the communist coup d´etat 1948. The concept of revolutionary culture has been discussed by American and German historians in relation to analysis of cultural revolution in the Soviet Russia.
Moreover, communist seizures of power in Central Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s has been in many respects similar to the Bolshevik Revolution, although it is obviously observed some significant differences.