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The Pluralist Anti-Levellers of Prague

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Ernest Gellner
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THE DESTINY OF THE SO-CALLED SOCIALIST SOCIETIES OF EASTERN Europe is one of the great questions of our time. The communist counter-reformation may plunge Eastern Europe into the same kind of somnolent torpor which the original Counter-reformation imposed on Southern Europe, and from which it has not yet really recovered. The abortive Prague Spring will remain a good source of evidence for what countervailing forces are available, which could possibly save Eastern Europe from such a fate. It was a revolution of intellectuals, a fact which may perhaps have always augured ill for its final outcome, though it was a hopeful sign for the quality of its literary and scholarly accompaniment.

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Research Article
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Government and Opposition , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , 01 January 1972 , pp. 20 - 37
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1972

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References

Pavel Machonin a kolektiv, Československá Společnost, Sociologická analýza socialní stratifikace. Nakladatel'stvo Epocha, Bratislava, November 1969, 619 pp.

2 tribuna, ročník 2, 14 October 1970, číslo 41, p. 3.