Gustáv Husák's Path to the Communist Movement

Abstract

This paper attempts to capture those factors that shaped Gustáv Husák in his youth and led him to join the communist movement. It further focuses on Husák's student activism during his grammar school and university studies until 1938 when he acted as an influential functionary in the Association of the Slovak Students.

Keywords

• Gustáv Husák
• Magda Husáková-Lokvencová
• Slovakia
• the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
• Slovak communism
• student movement
• the Association of Slovak Students
• the Association of Socialist Academics
• DAV
• Šíp