Nepřizpůsobiví. Studenti, máničky a další pohledem československých mocenských orgánů (PDF 2,3 MB)
MALADJUSTED_Students, long-haired youths and other perspectives of the Czechoslovak organs of power

Summary/Abstract: I would like to break the boss’s head with a chair and then go and get properly pissed. Then I would like hair down to my arse and all the records that have that kickass “big beat”. An unknown apprentice bricklayer. With this quote, the author introduces a study on the attitudes of the communist regime towards the “maladjusted” youth of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. At the same time, the fi nal straw for the communist authorities to initiate repressive measures came with the student celebrations of 1 May 1965, traditionally known as Majáles. The celebrations culminated with the election of the American beatnik Allen Ginsberg as the King of Majáles. Above all Czechoslovak university students showed themselves to be far removed from the communist concept of socialist youth. Consequently, from the authorities’ point of view, it was necessary to launch counteractive measures. This resulted in stricter surveillance, eff orts to ensure greater indoctrination with the ideas of communism, and growing repression. This also logically led to unoffi cial movements enjoying greater popularity.

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