Abstract
In the year 1930 when Czechoslovak society heavy suffered from the consequences of great depression, Julius Fučík decided to travel to the Soviet Union. The deep enthusiasm for Bolshevik experiment that was in his writings expressed by uncritical adoration of Soviet social engineering and first five-year plan in combination with extraordinary literary skills were the patterns of the texts that defined the shape of Soviet modernity for Czech readers not only in the thirties but also for 40 years of post-war socialist dictatorship.
The integration of Fučíks reports from the Soviet Union to the list of the most important ideological writings were influenced by his activity in the anti-Nazi resistance movement during the second world war. The goal of this paper is to detach the works about the Soviet Union from the symbolic system of Fučíks cult and analyze them in the context of their origin.
The removing the author from the pantheon of condemned iconic heroes of Czechoslovak communist party and acceptation of specific rationality to his writings can open the space for analytical research of Czechoslovak communist movement as an equal player in the playground of political visions in the age of extremes.