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After the November 1989 come to attention the question of human and civil rights and liberties in the post-totalitarian system which in the previous regime – despite the social challenges – had been neglected. For the new democratic CSFR the results of the Helsinki process in the field of human rights and liberties were connected with the interest to become the part of the Trans-European integrative structures. These two phenomena expressed oneself during the setting up the Czechoslovak federal as well as Slovak and Czech national constitutions, the integral part of which should be the constitutional safeguard of the basic human and civil rights. During the creating the constitutional system of the post-communist Czechoslovakia combined with the Czech-Slovak negotiations about the composition of the new federal relations between the Slovak and Czech republics, these rights reflected themselves in the principles of democracy and humanism, of legally consistent state, as well as of the right of nations of self-determination. The first climax in establishing the democratic character of the new regime was the elections in June 1990. In that time also the Charter of elementary human rights and liberties has been approved.
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Every autumn, monolithic narratives of November 1989 emerge in the media in Slovakia. On the one hand, these narratives tend to reproduce the image of the revolution as a man-made historical event; on the other hand, they raise questions about agency, the space of politics, and the way historical memory has been constructed. The article provides a dialogue between the media narratives of the Velvet Revolution and the narratives of 16 women who were interviewed in a study. The narrative analysis is embedded in research on the feminist social movement and the theory of everyday resistance. The article challenges the idea of the public square as the primary space of the revolution and the ‘tribunes’ as the main actors of November 1989. The title is a reference to Deborah Cohen and Lessie Jo Frazier’s study Talking Back to ´68. Gendered Narratives, Participatory Spaces, and Political Cultures analysing narratives of 1968 in Mexico. Their research provides a broader context for an interpretation of the narratives of November 1989, revealing the similarities and specific features of the two different events.
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