SOC 1105 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Prague Uprising, Checkpoint Charlie, Warsaw Pact

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

Struggled to maintain a national identity and to create a soviet, communist political reality. Kruschev"s denouncement does not signal a thaw in cold war. All that i claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in non-violence as the greatest force at the disposal of mankind mohandis k. Soviets (russians) send in army to crush czechoslovak rebellion". Social movements efforts were basically incompatible with any communist program, even a reformed one. Actually most people do not want to be permanently involved in politics, only a minority does. The real modernity of the 1968 movement was the opportunity to interfere in politics at any time. 1960"s did not have a profound impact on south africa. Sharpeville shootings (69 killed, mainly school children) Conditions for violence: political opposition (radical) crushed, anc, pac banned, repressive security legislation enacted, state censorship.