Vytváření socialistické noci
Společnost, představy a každodennost v Československu 1945-1960
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The night is generally a special or, in a way, extra-circular time with its own meanings, opportunities and dangers, as well as political, religious, social and economic consequences. Since the earliest cultures it has functioned as a metaphor and symbol, and has accompanied the rhetoric and imagery of various schools of thought and social projects, utopias and experiments. It is also often associated with crime. In modern times, nighttime has been systematically "colonized" and nocturnal activity "normalized." Industrial modernity conquered the night as another opportunity for work and production processes. The development of technology and lighting then opened up the night city to people as a space of leisure and entertainment. All of these aspects were at work in post-World War II Czechoslovakia, which then embarked on the path of building a new - socialist - social system, which it officially achieved in 1960. The book therefore addresses the question of how the new - socialist - night was shaped in this process, both in its symbolic perception and in its everyday experience.
