著者

石川 晃弘

出版者

中央大学社会科学研究所

雑誌

中央大学社会科学研究所年報 (ISSN:13432125)

巻号頁・発行日

no.23, pp.131-147, 2019-09-30

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In 1968, a challenging action arose in Czechoslovakia to reform the existing but dysfunctional socialist system, called "Prague Spring". This was initiated and promoted firstly by the progressive leaders of the Communist Party and then involved a great number of publics nation-widely, accompanying the call for "Revival of Socialism" toward "Socialism with a Human Face". This movement, however, was interfered and collapsed by the political and military forces of the Soviet Union and her followers. Main concern in this paper is to raise a supposition: If the militant pressure against the action toward the reformation would not be practised by the Soviet Union, the movement would have led to a success in realizing the system reformation? According to the author's hypothesis, the success would be doubtful, but the basic ideas and experiences in "Prague Spring" might have contributed to a successful system transformation and a peaceful shift to the new system at and after "Velvet revolution" by saving the social cost at transition.