CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Revolution by Law?

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For better or worse, Czechoslovakia last week was deep in the throes of revolution. It was not an upheaval in the old style of blood and barricades. It was in Europe's new style—a revolution by law. Its objective was nothing less than to build a political and ideological bridge between the East and West, to prove that socialism can be more democratic than totalitarian.

So far, it was a revolution by decree. Neither the revolution nor the revolutionary government had yet been subject to the test of direct, secret elections. Last...

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