Between the "third way" and capitalism. The idea of workers' privatisation in Czechoslovak postcommunist transformation

Abstract

The paper deals with different concepts of privatisation in postcommunist Czechoslovakia. After analysing the political struggles of the postcommunist era, it describes the fall of collective political indentities and a rise of individualism, which is typical for the so-called second crisis of modernity.

Keywords

• Czechoslovakia
• privatisation
• communism
• 20th century
• postcommunist transformation