Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Economics
- Subcategories: Trade, Commerce, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Democracy, Capitalism, Capitalists, Communism, Communists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Eastern European History
- Geographical Location: Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia
- Date: November 17-December 29, 1989
Article abstract: Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution marks the end of the Marxist-Leninist system and the beginning of a pluralistic democracy and a free-market economy.
Summary of Event
In its “gentle revolution,” Czechoslovakia became the second Soviet bloc country, after Poland, to establish a non-Communist government. Although Czechoslovakia before 1989 had not undergone any of the political and economic liberalization that took place in Poland and Hungary, the country appeared to dismantle its communist system more thoroughly than any other...
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