Abstract
The study will summarize knowledge about acquiring Soviet experience with economic tertiary education in the 1950s. It focuses on analyzing the influence of Soviet experiences and topics on the quality of the academic staff, organizing conferences, training, inviting Soviet experts, working with Soviet books and materials, subscribing to Soviet journals, sending teachers and students to the USSR, and building "Soviet corners".
The entry also focuses on the thesis that Soviet economic science that was introduced to economic tertiary institutions in Czechoslovakia was based on a dogmatic approach to classics, was not able to respond to current questions of economic progress in USSR, or solve issues during the transformation of economies of Eastern Bloc countries. The entry also analyses the negative aspects that Czechoslovak communists adopted from Soviet scientific examples when constituting economic tertiary education.
An example will demonstrate if the main issues with Sovietization were that many communist functionaries lacked experience with the Soviet education system, did not speak Russian, that there was not a sufficient amount of materials (study programs, study plans, curricula, textbooks). The entry will also test the thesis that direct influence of Soviet experts on this field was not very extensive, and will also answer the research question if the Sovietization of economic tertiary education went through significant changes during the first years of the Khrushchev era.