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In the Czech republic, the concept of civil society was introduced to public consciousness after 1989, when the Communist Party’s monopoly of power was abolished. This historical event left indelible traces also on the meanings in which the term “civil society” appears in the public usage. In the beginning the mass media expounded the circumstance that it had been the civil society in the form of...