"Nowhere it is possible to live more joyfully!" (Utopic vision of USSR in czechoslovak popular culture between World Wars)

Abstract

Paper focused on import of Soviet utopia in Czechoslovak interwar culture, which was not so succesful in our country as it was in Germany. One of the reasons was a limited target group of Czechoslovak sympathizers which gathered mainly around the Union of friends of USSR and left-wing periodicals (mainly Svět Sovětů ‒ The World of Soviets and Rozsevačka).

Keywords

• utopian image
• USSR
• Czechoslovakia
• interwar society
• popular culture