Obraz Sovětského svazu v českých cestopisech z let 1917–1968

• Authors: Jana Davidová Glogarová

Title variants

EN

The image of the Soviet Union in Czech travelogues between 1917 and 1968

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study focuses on the image of Soviet Russia (and later the Soviet Union) in travelogues written by Czech authors between 1917 and 1968. The material, which consists of more than 70 published books, provides new perspectives on the perceptions of the Soviet Union during the period in question. The text presents the main tendencies of travel books on the Soviet Union, crucial issues, their development and changes over the time, strategies used in Soviet society and reality presentations. The study covers several topics, such as the Soviet Union as an utopian world, Soviet citizens and their presentation, personality cult and its criticism and characteristics of the genre of ideological travel literature.

Keywords

EN

Czech travelogues on the Soviet Union; travelogues; genre of ideological travel literature; Soviet Union; communism

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: University of Ostrava, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Historica: revue pro historii a příbuzné vědy (Historica: Review in history and related sciences)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 69-86
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jana Davidová Glogarová

• Katedra historie, Filozofická fakulta, Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Reální 5, 701 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic