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Intellectuals and the Communist Idea
The Search for a New Way in Czech Lands from 1890 to 1938
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2010
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Intellectuals and the Communist Idea describes how the Communist ideology penetrated into Czech culture and politics from the dawn of the twentieth century into the late 1930s, just before the outbreak of WW II in Europe. Based mainly upon the research of contemporary primary sources, the analysis examines the complex issue of personal reasons and individual motivations, appealing slogans, and ideological and power peripheries connected with the formation of the relationship between the newly-founded Communist Party in Czechoslovakia and the left-wing artists and intellectuals declaring themselves Marxists. The work follows two main paths: the first is marked by the melting of the pre-war (meaning WWI) libertarian communism and radical left-wing stream in Czech politics into the Czechoslovak Communist Party, established in 1921 and becoming a strong and relevant political subject soon after its foundation. The second path follows the left-wing art front involvement in the Communist Party and its activities within. This concise insight into the world of Czech Communist intellectuals uncovers the ideological bigotry and intolerance of the Communist class-defined ideology, together with pointing out the unprincipled pragmatics of the ideological flops committed by the members of the interwar Communist movement under Lenin's and later Stalin's ward. The book illustrates clearly how the initial enthusiasm of the Czech Communist intellectuals eventually changed either into disillusionment resulting in their disaffiliation with Communism, or into permanent fear and obedient loyalty, which later became the base for establishing the Communist system in post-WW II Czechoslovakia.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4376-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4378-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
210
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 02. The Czech Left in the Early Twentieth Century No access Pages 7 - 16
Chapter 03. Czech Political Scene during WWI No access Pages 17 - 28
Chapter 04. The Czech and Slovak Left in the Period between the Establishment of the Sovereign Czechoslovak Republic and the First Parliamentary Elections No access Pages 29 - 42
Chapter 05. En Route to the Communist Party No access Pages 43 - 56
Chapter 06. Czechoslovak Communist Party Established No access Pages 57 - 66
Chapter 07. Proletarian Culture No access Pages 67 - 84
Chapter 08. The Left in the First Half of the 1920s No access Pages 85 - 100
Chapter 09. Leftist Culture in the Mid-1920s No access Pages 101 - 110
Chapter 10. KSC and the Leftist Culture in the Years 1926-1928 No access Pages 111 - 120
Chapter 11. Fifth Congree of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia No access Pages 121 - 134
Chapter 12. Generation Debate and the Origin of the Left Front No access Pages 135 - 152
Chapter 13. KSC and the Left Front in the First Half of the 1930s No access Pages 153 - 162
Chapter 14. KSC and Left-Wing Culture in the Mid-1930s No access Pages 163 - 172
Chapter 15. Political Trials in the USSR, Trotskyism, and the Definitive Dissension in the Cultural Left No access Pages 173 - 184
