Jaroslav Šabata (2 November 1927 – 14 June 2012) was a Czech political scientist, psychologist, and dissident during Czechoslovakia's Communist era.
[1] Šabata joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of World War II.
[2] He left the party in 1969, soon after the Prague Spring was crushed by the Soviets, and resigned from his political positions.
He represented the Civic Forum (OF), a Czechoslovak anti-authoritarian movement formed during the Velvet Revolution.
[1] He was elected as a deputy to the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia, which continued to exist until the county's dissolution in 1993.