DIFFICULTIES OF THE FIRST STAGE OF STATE-BUILDING IN THE CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLICS: FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TO THE EU

The countries of the socialist bloc, after the collapse of the latter, set a course for building their sovereign and democratic states. Such countries were the Czech and Slovak Republics, especially new challenges arose after their separation from each other in the form of a «velvet divorce» in early 1993. A number of difficulties faced by the political elites of these two states lay primarily in the economic plane, which in turn led to socio-political and socio-economic transformations. Such changes required knowledge and experience among the political elite, because it was before it, as the main subject of state formation, that the difficulties of the transformation period arose, which it had to solve. During the study of this problem, comparative and system analyses were used. According to the results, it is worth noting that the difficulties in both countries were caused by both subjective and objective factors.