Political culture

Continuity and discontinuity

Frederick M. Barnard

pp. 133-153

in: Harald G. Skilling (ed), Czechoslovakia 1918–88, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1991

Abstract

I would like to preface what follows with a personal anecdote because it helps, I think, to illustrate the peculiar blend of continuity and discontinuity that characterized Czechoslovak political culture at its emergence.