# The Restoration of Order

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- Authors: [Milan Simecka](https://www.bookquiver.com/milan-simecka)
- Publisher: karolinum
- ISBN: 978-80-2465-842-1
- Pages: 276
- Published: 2026-04-22
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In an engaging style, not lacking in irony and detachment, Milan Šimečka describes the process of restoring order and its result-so-called real socialism-in a brilliant analysis of the " normalization” regime in Czechoslovakia that came to power after the Soviet-led invasion that crushed the Prague Spring of 1968. These poignant reflections and essays coincided with Šimečka's first-hand experience of the consequences of the time's political and cultural purges. This second edition of Cold War classics, first written between 1975 and 1977, with a new preface from Martin Šimečka and afterword from Martin Bútora, highlights chilling parallels with contemporary political developments and current civic and ethical questions.