Abstract
Image of youth was part of the project associated with the socialist ideal of creative forces. Youth represented the new socialist man, unencumbered by the past and the remains of bourgeois ideology.
Since the early fifties was withdrawing group keen communist ideologues in which there were hopes and visions projected completion of future socialist society. Even more this idea worked in the sixties when waxing a new generation brought up in the post-war period and largely even in an environment lidovědemokratickém a socialist.
Intellectual world of the young generation is not always fully correspond to the expectations of the communist establishment, which stimulate both intra-party and social discussions. In my contribution, I would like to focus on discussing Czechoslovakian young generation in terms of generational structure of Czech society in the postwar period, while I try to determine the possibilities and limits of thinking about the period 1963-1967 as a generational break.
I will try to outline possible mental horizons and expectations in relation to the socialist project, as a group of young people who did not have direct experience of the economic crisis and the Second World War. These findings, I shall confront with historically dominant discourses about youth and the environment both in the Communist Party and the expert discourses about youth as a specific group within the socialist society.