Making the Most of Tomorrow : A Laboratory of Socialist Modernity in Czechoslovakia

Abstract

This is a micro-study of the destruction and reconstruction of the North Bohemian mining town of Most in post war Czechoslovakia. At the same time, it serves as a wider analysis of the contradictory socio-economic, environmental and cultural modernization of Communist Czechoslovakia.

Keywords

• Most
• State Socialism
• Modernity
• Czechoslovakia
• environmental history
• urban history