Rola i znaczenie Społeczeństwa Przeciwko Przemocy w aksamitnej rewolucji na Słowacji (17-29 listopada 1989 roku)
The role and significance of the Society Against Violence in the Velvet Revolution in Slovakia (17-29 November 1989)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present the course of the Velvet Revolution in Slovakia in the period from 17 to 29 November 1989 and to showthe similarities and differences between the two movements: Civic Forumand Society Against Violence. The study is based on several assumptions.Unlike the Civic Forum in the Czech Republic, the Society Against Violencewas a broad movement with a very decentralised structure, led by individualswho had no organisational experience. Secondly, the main goal of the SocietyAgainst Violence was to control power and thus it was more of a civic initiativethan a political one. Thirdly, a number of differences between the Civic Forumand the Society Against Violence determined the fact that it was not possibleto create a single Czechoslovak political elite. In the study, the comparativemethod was applied in order to indicate similarities and differences betweenthe Civic Forum and the Society Against Violence. To analyse the political reality in Slovakia in November 1989, the decision analysis method was applied.The article uses archival materials, documents and scientific studies.

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