Which Socialism, Whose Détente?

• Main Author: Maud Bracke (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 2007
• Subjects: modernization; socialism; 1968 Intervention; Czechkoslovakia; Cold War; identity; political ideologies; Italy; Czechoslovak crisis; communism; political parties; France; Prague Spring; Soviet Union
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This study analyzes the impact of the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968-1969 on the two major communist parties in the West: the Italian and French ones. Discusses the central strategic and ideological tensions which these parties needed to deal with: domestic belonging versus allegiance to the world comm...