Abstract
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM) stands out because it still represents a significant force in Czech politics even though it has worked out a discourse about the past that falls out of line with the values advocated by the new political system. This paradoxical situation forces us to reconsider the conditions underlying the historical itinerary of Czech Communists and to reassess the impact of a "rejection of Communism" in post-1989 political realignments. How to identify "Communists" in the post-Communist societies that have emerged since 1989? Who are we talking about? former officials in the party system? former party members who have turned to politics or now hold positions in the economy? members of reformed or "neo-" Communist parties? References to the past play a different role in the identities of each of these categories. Whereas Communist "renovators" in the early 1990s tended to skirt around the past in an attempt to blur their image, the "conservatives" have, since 1993,
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