Identity and Conflict. Communist Activist in Local Environment (1949 – 1956)
Identity and Conflict. Communist Activist in Local Environment (1949 – 1956)

Author(s): Marína Zavacká
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Historický ústav SAV
Keywords: Communist Activist; Communist Party; Communism; Slovakia;
Summary/Abstract: After losing the monopoly on information in early 1990s Communists somehow disappeared from the history of Slovakia. A mass of people, presented by the preceding time’s propaganda literally as the “movers of history”, “the leading power of the society”, vanished quite unnoticed. In the official public discourse, the concept of Communism was evacuated, and perceived as “the regime” or “the ideology”, or, at best, only symbolically referred to with the names of several top Communist Party officials. Questions given to the public for debate in relation to this phenomenon have also an interesting feature: much attention is given to the question of origin of Communism and to its zero point too often – meaning from where did “that” (alien) Communism come “to us”, to Slovakia, while questions related to the whole era, such as why Communism did so well there and why its effect is still so noticeable today are disregarded.

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