Caricatures of Revolution: Slovak Political Cartoons in the Czechoslovak Spring

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  • Scott Brown

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/cbp.2011.162

Abstract

This paper probes Slovak cartoons of the 1960s for insight into Slovak attitudes toward national rights and democratic reforms during the Czechoslovak Spring, an upheaval in the spring and summer of 1968, when Slovakia experienced a rapid growth in the number of published cartoons and a new generation of Slovak cartoonists emerged. Slovak cartoonists in 1968 exhibited a sincere desire to see democratization come to fruition, yet they feared democratic reforms would come to naught, due either to internal resistance or external intervention. Moreover, Slovak cartoonists devoted considerable attention to Slovaks’ demands for national rights and autonomy, including contemporary demands for the federalization of the Czechoslovak state into Slovak and Czech national republics. Their cartoons belie the stereotype of Slovaks in 1968 as narrowly focused on national issues such as democratization, showing instead how Slovak cartoonists regarded federalization as a democratic arrangement of Czech-Slovak relations and thus as an integral part of democratization in Czechoslovakia while also using humor and satire to remind their fellow Slovaks that federal reform was not tantamount to democratization.

Author Biography

Scott Brown

Scott Brown earned a Ph.D. in history in 2010 from the University of Washington. His dissertation, Socialism with a Slovak Face: The Slovak Question in the
1960s, offers a reexamination of the Czechoslovak Spring, arguing that Slovak nationalism played a vital role in sparking the upheaval, which began in Slovakia
in the mid-1960s and achieved statewide dimensions only in early 1968. He is the past recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, and has taught courses on modern European history, revolutions and the history of nationalism. He lives outside Washington, D.C.

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Published

2011-12-21

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No. 2105: Caricatures of Revolution: Slovak Political Cartoons in the Czechoslovak Spring

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