Exam Questions: Nationalism, Totalitarianism and Democratisation in Czechoslovakia, Study notes of History

Download Exam Questions: Nationalism, Totalitarianism and Democratisation in Czechoslovakia and more Study notes History in PDF only on Docsity! ARHOLIADAU 2010 EXAMINATIONS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND WELSH HISTORY MODULE HY12220: Nationalism, Totalitarianism and Democratisation: Czechoslovakia, 1945-1993. Time allowed TWO hours Answer TWO questions 1. When and why did a distinctively Czechoslovak national consciousness first emerge? 2. „Successful in domestic policy, but a failure in foreign policy.‟ Discuss this verdict on the record of the First Czechoslovak Republic between 1919 and 1938. 3. Why did Eduard Benes conceive of Czechoslovakia as building a „bridge between East and West‟ after 1941, and why did his vision fail? 4. To what extent did Stalinism change both Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak Communist Party? 6. To what extent and why did the principal impulses leading to the Prague Spring come from within the Communist Party? 7. Did the Soviet Union save „Socialism‟ in Czechoslovakia in August, 1968? 8. Why did Gustav Husak announce his intention to „restore order‟ in Czechoslovakia in 1969, and how did he set about accomplishing that task? 9. Why did a Dissident movement emerge in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s, and what were its chief characteristics? 10. Why and with what consequences did the leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party seek to resist Gorbachev‟s reformism? Continued overleaf/…….