Abstract
The magazine Květen was published in 1955-1959. Its articles and the profile of its editors reflected political and ideological developments in the second half of the 1950s.
It emerged in a period of extremely mild loosening of the hitherto strong and inhibiting pressure from party and state bodies overseeing the arts. It carried pieces that diverged from the constructivist pattern of Czech literature and drew attention away from social and political subjects to the personal sphere.
It became significantly involved in a discussion on the direction of the Union of Czechoslovak Writers. When at the turn of 1958 and 1959 the party decided to re-establish its oversight of the arts, was the publication of Květen halted.