Nespolehlivé živly, anebo objekt sociálního inženýrství v českém pohraničí?

• Authors: David Kovařík

Title variants

EN

Unreliable Elements: The Object of Social Engineering in the Czech Borderlands?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In this article the author discusses the main ideas in Matěj Spurny’s Nejsou jako my: Česká společnost a menšiny v pohraničí (1945–1960) (They Are Not Like Us: Czech Society and Minorities in the Borderlands, 1945–60; Prague: Antikomplex, 2011). He considers the book an important contribution to the social history of post-war Czechoslovakia, since Spurny attempts not only to identify the changing attitude of majority Czech society and its political elites towards minority groups (Germans, Roma, and Volhynian Czechs), but also to identify the Sinnwelt and social practice which emerged in the borderlands after the Second World War against the background of the local processes of expulsion and resettlement.

Keywords

EN

Social Engineering; Czech Borderlands

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Soudobé dějiny (Contemporary History)
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 182-189
• Document type: DISCUSSION PAPER

Contributors

author

David Kovařík

• Soudobé dějiny, redakce, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i., Vlašská 9, 118 40 Praha 1, Czech Republic