"We had to combat distrust": Student clubs in Czechoslovak and Polish cities in the Long Sixties

Abstrakt

This article is focused on discussions about student clubs in the 1960s' Czechoslovakia and Poland. Instead of emphasizing the spectacular political protests of 1968 on a global, national or regional level, it traces frictions between student representatives and party leaders, trade union members, university staff, youth and public authorities after Stalinism.

The articles searches for such experiences that students aimed at party committees, trade unions and city officials and that arose from articulation of student demands for the building student clubs. Therefore, it also follows the attempts to establish student clubs that covered autonomous social and cultural activities of post-war generation.

Klíčová slova

• De-Stalinization
• Poland
• Czechoslovakia
• University Students
• 1960s