Představy o roli sociální politiky v Československé sociálně demokratické straně dělnické mezi světovými válkami: Polemika mezi Evženem Šternem a Jiřím Pleskotem

• Authors: Martin Polášek

Title variants

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Social Democratic Ideas on Social Politics in Interwar Czechoslovakia: The Polemics between Evžen Štern and Jiří Pleskot

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the idea of social policy in the interwar Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party on the example of two significant personalities (Evžen Štern, Jiří Pleskot). The author relies on the less well-known assumption of power-resources approach that the welfare state as an extension of social policy represents for social democrats a first step towards the socialism. The basic question of the study is whether social democrats really did understood social policy as an instrument or part of transition from capitalism to socialism in this period. The author concludes that such idea was present in the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party, but not all intraparty streams shared it and it was not expressed in the official programmatic documents.

Keywords

EN

Social Democratic Party Czechoslovakia 1918–1938; social policy; welfare state; Evžen Štern; Jiří Pleskot; power-resources approach

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 69 – 84

Contributors

author

Martin Polášek