Husakism ( cs, husákismus; sk, husákizmus) is an ideology connected with the politician
Gustáv Husák
Gustáv Husák (, , ; 10 January 1913 – 18 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak communist politician of Slovak origin, who served as the long-time First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1987 and the president o ...
of
Communist Czechoslovakia
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, ČSSR, formerly known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic or Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, was the official name of Czechoslovakia from 1960 to 29 March 1990, when it was renamed the Czechoslovak ...
which has two different meanings and it was first used by
Karol Bacílek
Karol Bacílek (12 October 1896, Choťánky – 19 March 1974, Bratislava) was a Czechoslovak communist politician, activist and high-ranking state and Communist Party official during the leadership of Klement Gottwald.
Biography
Bacílek ...
to denounce the alleged "bourgeois nationalism" of Husák in 1950s. The later and more frequent use is for the ideology of Husák's
"normalization" and
federalism, the state ideology of Czechoslovakia from about 1969 to about 1989, formulated by Husák,
Vasil Biľak
Vasil ( Bulgarian and Macedonian: Васил, Georgian: ვასილ) is a Bulgarian, Macedonian and Georgian masculine given name. It may refer to:
* Vasil Adzhalarski, Bulgarian revolutionary, an IMARO leader of revolutionary bands
* Vasil A ...
and others. Husák's regime has also been described as
neo-Stalinist
Neo-Stalinism (russian: Неосталинизм) is the promotion of positive views of Joseph Stalin's role in history, the partial re-establishing of Stalin's policies on certain issues and nostalgia for the Stalin period. Neo-Stalinism over ...
.
References
Communism in Czechoslovakia
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Eponymous political ideologies
Gustáv Husák
Types of socialism
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