Rovní a rovnější. Malá skica z dějin zahraničního cestování, rekreací, a trávení volného času vrcholné komunistické nomenklatury post-stalinské éry (1954–1968)
Equal and More Equal. A Short Sketch from History of Travelling Abroad, Recreation and Leisure Time of the Top Communist Nomenklatura in Post-Stalinist Era (1954–1968)

Summary/Abstract: This short historical essay intends to show approaches, mechanisms and structures of travelling abroad, recreation and leisure time of Communist elites in Czechoslovakia between February 1948 and August 1968. The time span between summer 1954 and 1968 is defined by key party negotiations pertaining to this topic that also frame a specific “Czech way” of destalinisation, rise to power, dominance, and subsequent fall of Antonín Novotný, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (ÚV KSČ) and later the Czechoslovak President. It is a typological outline of who, when, how and why decided about “travelling and recreation” time of nomenklatura members. This outline is supplemented with selected cases demonstrating actual approaches to Party travelling policy. The paper is based on up-to-date historical research (especially by Alžběta Čornejová, Jan Rychlík, and Karel Kaplan) and on archival findings in the archives of the ÚV KSČ (first of all in those of Economic Council, Political Bureau, and Presidium).

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