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1990 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Karen Sawislak
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Working Class ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Social History ◽  
World War ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Documentary History ◽  
History Of

State Socialism, Egalitarianism, Collectivism: On the Social Context of Socialist Work Movements in Czechoslovak Industrial and Mining Enterprises, 1945–1965

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 47-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Heumos
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social History ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Industrial Productivity

This article examines the social history of socialist work movements in Czechoslovakia during the first two decades of the Communist regime in the country. These movements were attempts to increase industrial productivity and to transform preexisting working-class culture. Not only did they founder on the chaotic operation of the bureaucratic planned economy and the endemic shortages it brought in train, they also foundered on the realities of labor relations in Czechoslovak enterprises. These were marked by the continuity of tensions inherited from the immediate postwar years that persisted into the Communist era, and the strength of egalitarian values among Czechoslovakia's working class.

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