The Czechoslovak Year 1968: An Attempt to Revise Marxism-Leninism and Its Political Consequences

Abstract

ABSTRACT The content of the study is socio-political development in Czechoslovakia, known as the so-called Prague Spring or “revival process.” It started in January 1968, when A. Dubček became First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak “revival process” found its theoretical expression in the concept of the scientific and technological revolution and the “Action Program of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.” In practical politics, Dubček’s party leadership led to the strengthening of pro-capitalist tendencies and forces in society, which threatened to grow into the elimination of the fundamental pillars of Czechoslovak socialism.