Table of Contents:
  • "A criminal comedy but of a revivalist spirit" : the beginning and the end of the Prague Spring
  • Purge and the remaking of a socialist citizenry
  • Intellectuals, hysterics, and "real men" : the Prague Spring officially remembered
  • The quiet life versus a life in truth : writing the script for normalization
  • Broadcasting in the age of late communism
  • Jaroslav Dietl : normalization's narrator
  • The socialist family and its caretakers
  • Self-realization and the socialist way of life.