Abstract
The article studies the history of establishing the Prague Higher School of Economics in the 1950s and the career trajectories of first employees. This educational institution, opened during the active campaign of Sovietization of Czechoslovak science and education, considered by the Soviet authorities as a forge of new administrators and scholars. The article concludes by arguing the enormous role played by the staff members of the Higher School of Political and Economic Sciences in the establishing of the Higher School of Economics. It also notes the prominent role of staff members who came from the Czech Higher Technical School. Paradoxically, despite the active Sovietization the real influence of Soviet specialists on the work of the Higher School of Economics was very insignificant. The authors show that in the 1950s the process of staffing has not been completed yet. The shortage of staff was one of the reasons for the rapid progress of some persons up the career ladder. The establishment of the Higher School of Economics, on the one hand, marked the development of a new major ideological center of socialist Czechoslovakia. On the other hand, the study of the career paths of its first employees shows that the process of growing new elites went far beyond the preset frameworks, turned out to be more complicated than, for example, similar processes in the USSR in the 1920s – 1930s. The article finds out that the professional trajectories of many persons, who started out as passionate communists, will lead them on the path of criticism of dogmatic Marxism. Among the young employees were those who later enthusiastically joined the economic reforms’ movement of the 1960s and glorified the Prague Spring.
Highlights
The article studies the history of establishing the Prague Higher School of Economics in the 1950s and the career trajectories of first employees
The article concludes by arguing the enormous role played by the staff members of the Higher School of Political and Economic Sciences in the establishing of the Higher School of Economics
It notes the prominent role of staff members who came from the Czech Higher Technical School
Summary
Аннотация Рассматривается история создания в Праге в 1950-х гг. Высшей экономической школы сквозь призму профессиональных траекторий ее первых преподавателей. Открытое на волне активной советизации чехословацкой науки и образования, мыслилось как кузница новых управленческих и научных кадров. На основе сохранившихся источников авторы пытаются выявить, из каких учреждений был набран педагогический состав в момент создания Школы в 1953 г., какие области науки они представляли, кем были представители администрации, какое место занимали в чехословацкой научной, политической и общественной жизни. В статье делается вывод, что профессиональные траектории многих преподавателей, начинавших как убежденные коммунисты, вывели их на путь критики догматического марксизма. Ключевые слова Чехословакия, Высшая экономическая школа, советизация, карьерные пути, экономическое образование. «Кадры решают всё!»: профессиональные траектории первых сотрудников Высшей экономической школы в Праге (1950-е годы) // Вестник НГУ.
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