  in the history of czechoslovakia, normalization (, ) is a name commonly given to the period 1969â87. it was characterized by initial restoration of the conditions prevailing before the reform period led by alexander dubÄek (1963/1967 â 1968), first of all, the firm rule of the communist party of czechoslovakia, and subsequent preservation of this new status quo. "normalization" is sometimes used in a narrower sense to refer only to the period 1969 to 1971. the official ideology of normalization is sometimes called husakism after the czechoslovak leader gustÃ¡v husÃ¡k. == 1969â1971 (removing the reforms and reformers)== when gustÃ¡v husÃ¡k replaced alexander dubÄek as leader of the ksÄ in april 1969 after the military intervention of warsaw pact armies, his regime acted quickly to "normalize" the country's political situation. the chief objectives of husÃ¡k's normalization were the restoration of firm party rule and the reestablishment of czechoslovakia's status as a committed member of the socialist bloc. the normalization process involved five interrelated steps: *consolidate the husÃ¡k leadership and remove reformers from leadership positions; *revoke or modify the laws enacted by the reform movement; *reestablish centralized control over the economy; *reinstate the power of police authorities; and *expand czechoslovakia's ties with other socialist nations. within a week of assuming power, husÃ¡k began to consolidate his leadership by ordering extensive purges of reformists still occupying key positions in the mass media, judiciary, social and mass organizations, lower party organs, and, finally, the highest levels of the ksÄ. in the fall of 1969, twenty-nine liberals on the central committee of the ksÄ were replaced by conservatives. among the liberals ousted was dubÄek, who was dropped from the presidium (the following year dubÄek was expelled from the party; he subsequently became a minor functionary in slovakia, where he still lived in 1987). husÃ¡k also consolidated his leadership by appointing potential rivals to the new government positions created as a result of the 1968 constitutional law of federation (which created the czech socialist republic and the slovak socialist republic). once it had consolidated power, the regime moved quickly to implement other normalization policies. in the two years following the invasion, the new leadership revoked some reformist laws (such as the national front act and the press act) and simply did not enforce others. it returned economic enterprises, which had been given substantial independence during the prague spring, to centralized control through contracts based on central planning and production quotas. it r
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