Szlovákia a prágai tavasz után. Változások a Szlovák Kommunista Pártban és a szlovák társadalomban, 1968. augusztus – 1969. április
Slovakia after the Prague Spring: The Changes in the Communist Party of Slovakia and the Slovak Society (August 1968 – April 1969)

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the situation that established after the military intervention in Slovakia on 20th August 1968. He refers to the period from the beginning of the occupation till April 1969 as a transitional period, when the reformers are still trying to restore the Prague Spring acquis, however, in the meantime, “normalisation” - in line with the Soviet interests – were about to start, which stood for the legitimacy of the occupation. Gustáv Husák, who was elected to become the leader of the Communist Party of Slovakia during the initial days of the occupation, came first to “normalise“ the Slovak territories by the Spring of 1969, then later – for this achievement – he wins the first secretary position in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. By processing archives, the study reconstructs the role of Husák first in the Slovak, secondly the Czechoslovak party membership’s political polarisation: how he hindered the rescue of the reforms and how he served the Soviet interests in order to take the power in the end. In the second half of the study the author reveals how the Slovak society reacted on the so called normalization policy.

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