"Employees Make the Difference!": Career Trajectories of First Employees of the Higher School of Economics in Prague (1950s)
Abstract
The article deals with scientific and pedagogic elites at the University of Economics in Prague during the 1950s. The article studies the history of establishing the Prague Higher School of Economics in the 1950s and the career tra- jectories of first employees. This educational institution, opened during the active campaign of Sovietization of
Czechoslovak science and education, considered by the Soviet authorities as a forge of new administrators and schol- ars. The article concludes by arguing the enormous role played by the staff members of the Higher School of Political and Economic Sciences in the establishing of the Higher School of Economics. It also notes the prominent role of staff members who came from the Czech Higher Technical School. Paradoxically, despite the active Sovietization the real influence of Soviet specialists on the work of the Higher School of Economics was very insignificant.