State Regime Liberalization in Conditions of Crisis of Socialism: Slovak Context (mid-1980s—1992)
https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-8-367-382
Abstract
The article deals with the transformation of the Slovak state regime in the period of changes in the system of socialist governance in the mid-1980s — 1992. It is determined that the historical period of liberalization of the Communist regime had a significant impact on the further success of democratic transformations. The subject of the analysis was the public and Church opposition in socialist Slovakia. The fact of the ideological evolution of the opposition movement “Public against violence” has been established. It is noted that the movement for independence in Slovakia in 1989—1992, which was initiated by the Slovak elite led by Vladimir Mechiyar, significantly reduced the intensity of the democratic transition. It is claimed that in the first half of the 1990s Vladimir Mechiyar built a strong vertical of Executive power, supported by the dominance of the Movement for a democratic Slovakia in the Parliament. It is emphasized that the first competitive parliamentary elections in Slovakia in 1990 and 1992 failed to stabilize the socio-political situation in the country, despite the intensive development of multiparty systems.
Keywords
post-Communist Slovakia,
democratic transformations,
Public against violence,
mechiyarism,
Church opposition,
anti-Communist opposition,
Czechoslovak Federation
Supporting agencies: The research was carried out within the framework of the VEGA Project 1/0131/18 (Slovak Republic) entitled «Europe in Movement. Multicausality of Present Democracy Crisis and the Rise of Extremism in Europe».
About the Author
Ye. I. Haydanka
Trnava University
Slovakia
Slovakia
ResearcherID M-7335-2018
PhD in Political Sciences, associate professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
Trnava
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Haydanka Ye.I. State Regime Liberalization in Conditions of Crisis of Socialism: Slovak Context (mid-1980s—1992). Nauchnyi dialog. 2020;(8):367-382. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-8-367-382
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