The greengrocer and his TV : the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring /

Bren, Paulina,

The greengrocer and his TV : the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring / Paulina Bren. - Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2010] ©2010 - 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.

"A criminal comedy but of a revivalist spirit" : the beginning and the end of the Prague Spring -- Purge and the remaking of a socialist citizenry -- Intellectuals, hysterics, and "real men" : the Prague Spring officially remembered -- The quiet life versus a life in truth : writing the script for normalization -- Broadcasting in the age of late communism -- Jaroslav Dietl : normalization's narrator -- The socialist family and its caretakers -- Self-realization and the socialist way of life.

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Dietl, Jaroslav, 1929-1985 --Criticism and interpretation.

--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.


Czechoslovakia--Politics and government--1968-1989.
Czechoslovakia--Social life and customs--20th century.
Czechoslovakia--Intellectual life--20th century.
Czechoslovakia--History--Influence.--Intervention, 1968

Communism and culture Political culture Television and politics