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Communism in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1960
By (Author) Edward Taborsky
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th February 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
Social and cultural history
335.43094371
Paperback
642
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
879g
Czechoslovakia, once considered Central Europe's model democracy, has been a Soviet satellite since 1948. The Communists now boast that "socialism" has defeated capitalism politically and has surpassed it in production, in living standards, and in social justice. How realistic is this picture of conditions in a country once oriented to the West Th