Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “A Criminal Comedy but of a Revivalist Spirit”: The Beginning and the End of the Prague Spring 11
6. 2. Purge and the Remaking of a Socialist Citizenry 35
7. 3. Intellectuals, Hysterics, and “Real Men”: The Prague Spring Officially Remembered 61
8. 4. The Quiet Life versus a Life in Truth: Writing the Script for Normalization 85
9. 5. Broadcasting in the Age of Late Communism 112
10. 6. Jaroslav Dietl: Normalization’s Narrator 130
11. 7. The Socialist Family and Its Caretakers 159
12. 8. Self-Realization and the Socialist Way of Life 177
13. Conclusion 201
14. Notes 209
15. Bibliography 239
16. Index 247