ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of the propaganda in Czechoslovakia during the second decade of normalisation, which ended in 1989. At that time Czechoslovakian society was deeply divided between 'two parallel cultural and social spaces with the official sphere, loyal to the regime on one side and colourful various non-official, private-oriented activities ranging from hand-written literature to fine arts on the other side'. The chapter explores propaganda as an ideological tool that can establish and maintain dominance relationships and uses Thompson's classification of how individual ideology methods work and reproduce power relations. The state ideology was meticulously elaborated with Marxist-Leninist philosophy and presented as the objective outcome of scientific research - similar to the situation in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and presumably other countries under the Soviet influence. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC) seized political power in February 1948 in a coup d'etat that was supported heavily by the Soviet Union.
