Vytváření členské základny ČSAV v roce 1952
The Formation of the Membership Base of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1952

Summary/Abstract: The selection of members for the new institution was one of the tasks the Go¬vernment Commission for Development of the Czechoslovak Academy of Scien¬ces under the leadership of Ladislav Stoll was entrusted with by a government decision of 15 January 1952. The article examines the work of the Commission in this area, focusing in particular on the political criteria of selection. It also considers how the relationship was defined between the Academy and its assumed sub-academies, of which ultimately only the Czechoslovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences came into being and survived for one decade. It also exa¬mines the extent to which Slovak scholars were represented in the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and then looks at the establishment of the separate Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1953. The article mainly considers the extent to which the new institution was based on earlier academic societies of the kind in Czechoslovakia in terms of staff and organization. The article includes lists of ordinary members and corresponding members from 1952, as well as a list of 29 scholars excluded in the last minute from elections of corresponding mem¬bers, after intervention by dogmatic members of the apparat Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Although the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences developed under the wing of the Communist Party, in the work of the Government Commission certain ele¬ments of democratic [...]

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