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| C. Political dynamics | 15 |
| 1. Assessment of the reform era | 15 |
| 2. The Communist regime | 17 |
| a. Background | 17 |
| b. The Dubcek era | 18 |
| c. Husak and the return to normalcy | 21 |
| 3. Communist party organization and membership | 24 |
| a. Central organs | 24 |
| b. Regional and local levels | 26 |
| c. Membership | 26 |
| 4. Mass organizations and other parties | 27 |
| 5. Exile groups | 28 |
| 6. Electoral procedures | 29 |
| D. National policies | 30 |
| 1. Domestic | 31 |
| 2. Foreign | 34 |
| a. Relations with the Communist world | 35 |
| b. Relations with developed non-Communist states | 36 |
| c. Relations with developing countries | 38 |
| E. Threats to government stability | 38 |
| 1. Discontent and dissidence | 39 |
| 2. Subversion | 40 |
| F. Maintenance of internal security | 41 |
| 1. Police | 41 |
| 2. Countersubversive and counterinsurgency measures and capabilities | 43 |
| G. Selected bibliography | 43 |
| 1. General works | 44 |
| 2. The pre-1948 period | 44 |
| 3. The Stalinist era and after | 44 |
| 4. The Dubcek era and the 1968 crisis | 44 |
| Chronology | 46 |
| Glossary | 51 |
| Fig. 1 Territorial changes (map) | 2 |
| Fig. 2 National Assembly voting on federalization law (photo) | 7 |
| Fig. 3 President Svoboda signing federalization law (photo) | 7 |
| Fig. 4 Organization of government (chart) | 10 |
| Fig. 5 President Ludvik Svoboda (photo) | 11 |
| Fig. 6 Premier Lubomir Strougal (photo) | 12 |
| Fig. 7 General Secretary Gustav Husak (photo) | 16 |
| Fig. 8 Former First Secretary Alexander Dubcek (photo) | 19 |
| Fig. 9 Invasion by the Warsaw Pact countries (photo) | 20 |
| Fig. 10 Organization of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (chart) | 25 |
| Fig. 11 Leadership of Communist Party (chart) | 26 |
| Fig. 12 Minister of Foreign Affairs Bohuslav Chnoupek (photo) | 35 |
| Fig. 13 River patrol (photo) | 43 |
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