Abstract
The main field of the workshop was defined by the processes of radicalisation and de-radicalisation of the Czech society, or more precisely, with the legitimisation and de-legitimisation of the violence as a tool for solving social conflicts. We were discussing the question: How was it possible that Czech society recognized the collective violence as a legitimate way of dealing with social tensions? The Czech society we perceive not on a strict national base; rather we provide more cultural definition of society as the community with common experience including inhabitants of concrete geographical area.
Main continuities we have drawn at the level of state politics which created at that time remarkably dominant logics of social cleansing shared by totally different regimes exercising the power to social labelling (Nazi Germany, restored Czechoslovakia, Communist Czechoslovakia), in order to exclude certain social groups from the state or national community from the middle of 1930's until the middle of 1950's.