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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.

Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (1993–2018)

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Spurný M., Štolleová B.

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

2018

issue 28

7-34

The paper deals with the development of the Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, in the first 25 years of its activity (1993–2018). Against the background of the scientific profiling of the institute towards the modern and contemporary economic and social history of the Czech lands and Central Europe and profiling of its pedagogical activities, the paper offers an insight into the process of institutionalization of economic and social history as a distinct discipline within the Czech historical science after 1989. Due to many research projects, first-rate PhD. program, as well as the ability to integrate researchers from other institutions in Czech Republic and abroad, the institute contributes to understanding of the economic and social processes of modern times.

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

Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (1993–2018)