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ALEXANDER DUBČEK TWICE – THE (UN)KNOWN SIDE OF HIM

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The author, using two visual works, i.e. theatre production #dubček and film Dubček (both 2018), compares two different approaches to and forms of the work with the personality of Alexander Dubček against the backdrop of the reforms and political upheaval in Czechoslovakia, in 1968. Theatre production #dubček (Aréna Theatre, Bratislava, direction Michal Skočovský) has three levels. The first one is acting game having the form of a rehearsal of a new text about the politician Alexander Dubček; its component part is the projection of period archival film shots. The second level involves the actors stepping out of characters and commenting on Dubček’s attitude and on historical events. The third level entails monologue scenes, in which actors reveal their personal attitudes via narrated stories at the time of normalization which had a negative impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands people. In the film Dubček (Slovak-Czech co-production, direction Ladislav Halama), through Dubček’s reminiscing the past, political events interweave with the scenes from the life of Dubček’s family. Although both works employ period image documentary material and fiction, they fail to create a dramatic conflict and they are illustrative for the bigger part.
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The politician, humanist and democrat Alexander Dubček, a leading personality from the Czechoslovak or Prague Spring of 1968, held the position of chairman of the Federal Parliament of the Czecho – Slovak Federal republic from 1990 until the parliamentary elections of June 1992. The parliament, together with the national councils of the Czech and Slovak republics laid the foundations of parliamentary democracy during this period. Dubček, a leading supporter of Czecho – Slovak partnership, had an important role in the political, social and constitutional development of Czecho-Slovakia and its two national republics. He participated in the preparation of a proposed constitution of Czecho-Slovakia and he chaired the Federal Constitution Commission. He took part in many discussions of the national and federal representatives on constitutional questions. He was a supporter of political agreement between representatives, and he also applied this policy in the Federal Parliament. After the parliamentary elections of June 1992, he influenced no longer the development of Czecho-Slovakia.
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The study is concerned with the problem of Czech – Slovak relations mainly in the period directly preceding 1968, immediately before spring (1963 – 1967). Weakening of the regime from the political and economic points of view enabled some degree of liberalization, which allowed some criticism of social relations. In Slovakia this owed something to the activity of A. Dubček, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia. Dubček even created space for criticism. Thus, conditions emerged for gradual change in the field of Czech – Slovak relations. This is also clear from some hitherto little-known documents that are analysed in the study. They bring a change of view of various relevant facts, such as those concerning the method of measuring the socio-economic levelling up of Slovakia to the level of the Czech Lands and evaluation of the economic growth of the Slovak economy. This gradually prepared the ground for the important changes to Czech – Slovak relations in 1968.
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The study is concerned with the political activities of Jozef Lenárt, Czechoslovak premier and member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Analysis of his relations with Antonín Novotný and Alexander Dubček serves as a starting point. Lenárt’s televised speech from March 1968, when he strove to explain his actions in January 1968, is considered. From May 1968, Lenárt inclined to the Soviet vision of political developments in Czechoslovakia. The paper analyses Lenárt’s activities after 21 August 1968 with the conclusion that by gradually changing his political orientation he secured the continuation of his political career.
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