Politické osobnosti KSČ v předivu rodinných vazeb
Political Personalities of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and Their Family (Dis)Entanglements

Report from the Colloquium

Summary/Abstract: The colloquium entitled “Ancestors and Descendants of the State Socialism Elites: The Fates of Families in the Czech Lands in the Long Twentieth Century”, which the author reports, was organized on February 15, 2023, in Prague by historians Stanislav Holubec and Vojtěch Čurda under the auspices of the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Its main goal, which was fulfilled, was to present selected leading figures of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from various periods of its existence in the broad context of intergenerational family ties during the twentieth century. The colloquium had a strong sociological overlap, as the speakers also traced transfers of social capital within families or changes in the economic and social status of their members. Along with historians, often authors of biographies of communist politicians, the colloquium also featured descendants and relatives of the discussed personalities. According to the author, the event demonstrated promising perspectives of the genre of historical biography in such a broader conception.

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