Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia : From the First Democratic Republic to the Fall of Communism.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyrights -- Faculty of Social Sciences -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The silent majorities, Sovietization, and 'life within a lie' -- The specificities of East European socialisms -- In the shadow of Stalin's Statue - Communism in Czechoslovakia -- PRELUDE: Television as a concept between democracy and Nazism -- CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 1: Czechoslovakia - The first democratic republic 1918-1938 -- 2 Radio context: Among the first in Europe -- 3 Pioneers of television -- Jaroslav Šafránek - the Czech Baird -- 4 Television as a political matter -- A matter of all-state importance -- CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 2: The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939-1945 -- 5 In the hands of the military -- What was left after the Nazi occupation -- Czechoslovak army attempts to seize control of television -- What was left after the liberation -- Czechoslovak military television is born! -- THE MAIN ACT: Television should serve the Communist ideology -- 6 Context of Soviet approaches in the televisual space of the Eastern Bloc -- Taking over the organizational patterns -- Television content -- The expansion and keeping of the colossus -- CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 3: Czechoslovakia - Prelude to communism, 1945-1948 -- 7 New totalitarianism on the horizon -- Radio means power -- Television harvest 1948 -- CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 4: Czechoslovakia - Stalinism 1948-1960 -- 8 The birth of television in Stalinist Czechoslovakia -- How the communists began to need television -- 1 May 1953 - we are broadcasting! -- Experimental broadcasting -- 9 On its own feet -- Television truly Czechoslovak -- A sisterly division -- CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 5: The golden sixties in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic 1961-1970 -- 10 The birth of a TV nation.

The helplessness of political power, the power of television -- The fall of censorship and the Prague Spring -- 11 Occupation in 1968: We keep broadcasting! -- Reaction of power -- Fear of the first anniversary and reflections on the Prague Spring -- CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 6: Normalization and post-totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia 1970-1989 -- 12 Television as the last instrument of power -- Color television in the black-and-white normalization period -- Fear of the opposition -- 13 Television as a participant of the Velvet Revolution -- CODA: Towards public service -- CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 7: The Czech and Slovak federal republics' return to democracy, 1989-1992 -- 14 The birth of a public broadcaster -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources of pictures -- About the author -- Index.

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