Representations of Students Clubs in Central European Cities: Prague, Warsaw, and Bratislava in the 1960s
Abstract
The text deals with the question of controversies between students and central authorities about the operation of student clubs in Prague, Warsaw, and Bratislava in the 1960s. Here there are two basic positions can be distinguished: First, the ideas that the students connected with the club as a place of group-specific difference.
Different interest groups in the socialist society, eg. journalists, architects, artists, or retirees, operated the clubs. Second one refers to the club as a place where the post-war generation was united.
Such clubs were supported by the party leaders, the board of the Youth League, the union councils or the university administration. However, student activists fought for the establishment of clubs that have been designed exclusively for students.
The generation unit of high school students and young workers could be cleaved in student clubs. Similar ideas were followed to the foreign travel of students.