The Normalisation Regime and its Impact on Slovak Domestic Policy after 1970

Examines the nature of the Normalization regime in Slovakia & its influence on post-1989 Slovak domestic policy. Discussion begins with a look at how Slovak society adjusted in the wake of the August 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia & compares the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia policies in the Czech region vs Slovakia. The sources of stability & legitimacy this so-called real socialism under Slovakia's conditions are identified, & the political, historical, & socioeconomic factors underlying the Slovak political oppositions weakness, particularly manifest in the dissident movement around Charter 77. Attention then turns to the impact of Normalization on Slovakia's development & on domestic policy after 1989, highlighting the impotency of anticommunism there. Figures, References. D. Edelman