"By revealing our faults we are showing our strength." Transformations of intellectual world of local party elites after the year 1956 as illustrated by localities of Šumperk and Zábřeh
Abstract
Conference paper examines the process of consolidating the stability of power relations and re-enhancing the legitimacy of one's position on the example of the regional Communist Party communist elites in the district Sumperk and Zabreh. It represents a gradual shifts in thinking and ideas of local stakeholders in relation to the discourses related to social turmoil concerning the revelation of Stalin's cult of personality, within which the utopian pursuit of the ideal communist society gradually replaced the public actually received the promise of building a socialist society.
A gradual resumption of repressive practices in 1957 and 1958 was made possible by adopting social ideas of the Communist Party as a guarantor of social stability. Borderlands had in this process a specific character, because there were communists perceived very much as a guarantee of permanence post-war conditions - primarily associated with the forced displacement of the German population.
