Postwar Prague – Comparable Picture Czech Community and Yugoslav Students - Scholarship Holders from 1945 till the Declaration of Information Bureau R Cover Image

POSLERATNI PRAG – SLIKA ZA POREĐENJE Čehoslovačka sredina i jugoslovenski studenti - stipendisti od 1945. godine do objavljivanja Rezolucije IB
Postwar Prague – Comparable Picture Czech Community and Yugoslav Students - Scholarship Holders from 1945 till the Declaration of Information Bureau R

Author(s): Miroslav Perišić
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: postwar generation of Yugoslav students; Information Bureau Resolution; Czechoslovakia; Soviet Union; Second World War; Karl's University in Prague

Summary/Abstract: The first postwar generation of Yugoslav students – scholarship holders, started their studies at Czech universities in late 1945 and in early 1946. Between 400 and 500 students completed the studies at Czech universities by 1948, that is to say till declaring of Information Bureau Resolution. Their position at studies in Czechoslovakia was much better than the status of their compatriots in the Soviet Union, but at the same time much more difficult than the position of Yugoslav students in France. The stay in Czechoslovakia was a new experience for Yugoslav students due to the fact that they resided temporarily in the pro-socialist country which differed from Yugoslavia in many aspects. Four political parties shared the power in Czechoslovakia till February 1948 and then the power was taken by communists. Prague was preserved in the Second World War, with a few torn down buildings and about ten thousand victims. The stay in Czechoslovakia for Yugoslav students also meant an encounter with the country with Central-European tradition that moved towards soc-realism. Their studies at Karl's University in Prague which was established in 1348, more than forty years before Kosovo Battle, imposed comparisons with the tradition of their country of origin.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 82-112
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Serbian