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Formation of the Advanced School of the National Security Corps and the Department of Penology in the 1980s

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Hladík O.

Prager wirtschafts- und sozialhistorische Mitteilungen - Prague Economic and Social History Papers

2014

vol. 20

issue 2

75-93

Educational system of the Sbor národní bezpečnosti which was in 1970s and 1980s catered for by a newly established resort Vysoká škola SNB has been so far a rather neglected topic as for research reflections. It was indeed a place where the ideology was of a privileged position. This manifested itself also as of a poor professional level of a great number of its graduates. In addition no one managed to do without strongly accentuated principles of the Marxism-Leninism. This indeed totally discredited this institution in the eye of the public. In spite of this there was a chance to acquire during one’s studies a good quality command of a whole range of specific fields of study, such as for example the criminology, of course if there were students interested in that. Also the department of penology became from the end of 1970s an im portant part of the organization structure of this school within the frame of Faculty of the Public Security which was designated mainly for members of the Sbor nápravné výchovy. Thus the plans which came to being at the time of establishing the school consummated, i.e. to found a working place focused directly upon problems of the prison service.

The Fall and Rise of the City of Most: On the Dynamics of Socialist Modernity

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Spurný M.

Prager wirtschafts- und sozialhistorische Mitteilungen - Prague Economic and Social History Papers

2014

vol. 19

issue 1

39-60

During the 1960s and 1970s, the historical town of Most, Northern Bohemia, was wiped off the face of the Earth in order to extract brown coal which was located under its streets and houses. Further away, a rationally planned town of the very same name was built. This article is searching for roots and circumstances of the decisions that determined the post-war history of Most. Its central goal is an analysis of an intellectual and social context in which it was possible to justify such a gigantic experiment, putting the context of modernist technocratic thought and architectural utopias into the centre of the interpretation. From this point of view, specific circumstances of the communist dictatorship played a significant role in the development analysed here, a broader context of modernist utopian and technocratic thought was, however, of even greater importance. The case of Most demonstrates that technocratic thought, based on the conviction that one can break the world down into small pieces and then reassemble it as a jigsaw puzzle somewhere else at another time, proved to be extraordinarily flexible and viable, as it managed to integrate a variety of often opposing ideas and solutions.

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2 Prager wirtschafts- und sozialhistorische Mitteilungen - Prague Economic and Social History Papers

1 Hladík O.

1 Spurný M.

2 2014

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Formation of the Advanced School of the National Security Corps and the Department of Penology in the 1980s

The Fall and Rise of the City of Most: On the Dynamics of Socialist Modernity