Glossary of Terms
Normalization [Normalizace]
The policies instituted in Czechoslovakia following the Warsaw-Pact invasion in August 1968 and continuing into the late 1980s. Normalization was a general roll-back of the reforms carried out during the Prague Spring, and was characterized by a tightening of censorship, purges of state positions, restriction of political organizations and an overall stagnation of political, cultural and social life.
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