At 11 o´clock in the evening of 20th August 1968, the armies of four Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia, starting the ...“Operation Danube”. Literally overnight the Czechoslovak experiment with Alexander Dubček´s liberalization reforms was transformed from living reality into history. Although the Soviet Union’s action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for both the unity of the communist bloc and the establishment of the new Soviet foreign doctrine. This book brings the international context of the 1968 crisis in Czechoslovakia to the center of attention. It brought together experts from within as well as from without Central Europe with the hope of igniting, or, perhaps better, re-igniting an international discussion on the Prague spring, its origins, its unfolding, its aftermath, and, most importantly, the international context.
The volume’s contributors are: Ljubodarg Dimić, Jakub Drábik, Mihail Gruev, Slavomír Michálek, Miklós Mitrovits, Jackques Rupnik, Alexander Stykalin, Mirosław Szumiło, Michal Štefanský, and Virgiliu Tarau
The Kotleba - People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) was founded in 2010 and has been the centre of attention from Slovak media, academia and politicians since 2013. In spite of this interest, there ...appears to be no consensus in the way that it should be referred to - is it a neo-fascist, a neo-Nazi or a radical right-wing party? The aim of this study is an attempt to analyse the ideology of the LSNS based on both official and unofficial statements and the rhetoric of its representatives, the party's agenda and propaganda. It argues that the party´s past, its constant attacks on democracy and the democratic system, the glorification of undemocratic regimes, declared efforts to achieve an "alternative to the contemporary decadent era," and a "new epoch," its international cooperation with similar movements, racists, anti-Semitic statements and the use of neo-Nazi symbolism indicate the neo-Nazi character of the party's ideology.
The paper attempts to look at the British Union of Fascists' (BUF) propaganda in the light of the partial agreement or 'new consensus' that has emerged in fascist studies in recent years. Based on ...the official BUF party press, publications, pamphlets, propaganda posters, speeches and the public appearances of the movement's leading figures and other forms of propaganda, this article analyses the propaganda of the BUF as not just in terms of such crude 'brainwashing' or 'social control', but also as a form of social engineering - in other words, as a serious attempt to realise the ideas of an alternative modernity and of a political, economic, social and cultural revolution which enlists the enthusiasm, commitment and creativity of the fascist cause.
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