THE IDEALIZATION OF THE SOVIET REGIME IN POST-WAR CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

The study deals with the problem of creating of the new relationship of post-war Czechoslovak society and its political elites to the Soviet Union and its social, political, economic and culture system. The theoretical frame of this study is based on the theory of cultural hegemony of A. Gramsci. The study aims is to show how the politics and the media interpreted image of the USSR, and how was this image used to explain the key steps that Czechoslovakia's political elites realized in the post-war period in internal and foreign policy. The study is primary based on themes, such as the implications of the Czechoslovakia-Soviet Treaty of 1943, the position of the USSR to the Munich crisis, the recognition of the London Exile government, or Soviet acceptation of the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. The analysis of the crisis of refusing the participation of Czechoslovakia in the Marshall Plan is also an important part of this study. We show the inconsistency of fear of post-war Czechoslovak society and politicians of the possibility of renovation of strong Germany and the possible continuation of conflict with them. The study also deals with the question of the revival of the topic of the Slavic mutuality it was relatively connected with the model of people's democracy, imported by the Soviets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]