Czech Socialist Republic

Czech Socialist Republic (1960–90)
Česká socialistická republika
Czech Republic (1990–92)
Česká republika
Federal subject of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1969–90) and Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (1990–93)
←
1969–1993 →
Flag (1990–1992) Small coat of arms (1992)
Czech Socialist Republic within CSSR
Capital Prague
Government Socialist republic (1968–89)
Parliamentary republic (1989–92)
Legislature Czech National Council
History
 • Constitutional Law of Federation 1 January 1969
 • Velvet Revolution 17 November–29 December 1989
 • Independence 1 January 1993

The Czech Socialist Republic (Česká socialistická republika in Czech; abbreviated ČSR) was a republic within Czechoslovakia that is the Czech Republic today. The name was used from 1 January 1969 to March 1990.

History

After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, liberalisation reforms were stopped and reverted. The only exception was the federalization of the country. The former centralist state Czechoslovakia was divided in two parts: the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic by the Constitutional Law of Federation of 28 October 1968, which went into effect on 1 January 1969. New national parliaments (the Czech National Council and the Slovak National Council) were created and the traditional parliament of Czechoslovakia was renamed the "Federal Assembly" and was divided in two chambers: the House of the People (cz:Sněmovna lidu / sk:Snemovňa ľudu) and the House of Nations (cz:Sněmovna národů / sk:Snemovňa národov). Very complicated rules of voting were put in effect.

After the fall of socialism in Czechoslovakia, the word "socialist" was dropped from the names of the two republics, i.e., the Czech Socialist Republic was renamed the Czech Republic (though it was still a part of Czechoslovakia).

The complicated system of parliamentary voting (there were de facto five different bodies each having right of veto) was kept after the fall of socialism, complicating and delaying political decisions during radical changes in the economy.

Later, in 1993, the Czech Republic became an independent state (see Dissolution of Czechoslovakia).

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Timeline of Czechoslovak statehood
Pre-1918 1918–1938 1938–1945 1945–1948 1948–1989 1989–1992 1993–
Bohemia
Moravia
Silesia		 Austrian Empire First Republica Sudetenlandb Third Republic Czechoslovak Republice
1948–1960		 Czechoslovak Socialist Republicf
1960–1990		 Czech and Slovak Federative Republic
1990–1992		 Czech Republic
Second
 Republicc
1938–1939		 Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
1939–1945
Slovakia Kingdom of Hungary Slovak Republic
1939–1945		 Slovak Republic
(Slovakia)
Southern Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukrained
Carpathian Ruthenia Zakarpattia Oblastg
1944 / 1946 – 1991		 Zakarpattia Oblasth
1991–present
Austria-Hungary Czechoslovak government-in-exile

a ČSR; boundaries and government established by the 1920 constitution.
b Annexed by Nazi Germany.
c ČSR; included the autonomous regions of Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia.
d Annexed by Hungary (1939–1945).

e ČSR; declared a "people's democracy" (without formal name change) under the Ninth-of-May Constitution following the 1948 coup.
f ČSSR; from 1969, after the Prague Spring, consisted of the Czech Socialist Republic (ČSR) and Slovak Socialist Republic (SSR).
g Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR.
h Oblast of Ukraine.

Coordinates: 50°05′00″N 14°28′00″E / 50.0833°N 14.4667°E / 50.0833; 14.4667

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