Open AccessTeaching of Marxism-Leninism in Czechoslovakia 1948–1989
Author(s) -
Markéta Devátá
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
historia scholastica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2336-680X
pISSN - 1804-4913
DOI - 10.15240/tul/006/2021-1-002
Subject(s) - intelligentsia , communism , space (punctuation) , political science , socialism , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics education , social science , law , psychology , politics , philosophy , linguistics
The article deals with one of the key tools of forming a socialist-minded intelligentsia at universities, the teaching of Marxism-Leninism. The author summarizes results of her research in which she focused, apart from a factual account, also on constituent actors and their mutual interactions. On the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the objectives it had in the beginning of the project and which it was pursuing and adjusting for decades afterwards. On teachers of Marxism-Leninism, who kept the project going and were also looking for some space for their own concepts in it, and naturally also on students’ attitudes and approaches to the teaching of Marxism-Leninism.