Právněhistorické studie / Legal History Studies (Charles University journal; below referred to as PHS or Journal) is a scientific journal listed in the international prestigious database SCOPUS. The journal is published by Charles University in Prague under the guarantee of the Department of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University. It is published by the Karolinum Press. The journal focuses on the field of legal history and related topics.
Issue 1 of the Journal was published by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Publishing in June 1955. The Journal was initially published by the Cabinet of Legal History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science (CSAV), later by the Institute of State and Law (CSAV) and then by the Institute of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University.
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PRÁVNĚHISTORICKÉ STUDIE, Vol 44 No 2 (2014), 62–81
Státní bezpečnost a kultura v letech 1948 až 1989 – právněhistorický pohled
[State Security and Culture in the Years 1948–1989, the View of Legal History]
Stanislav Polnar
published online: 21. 05. 2015
abstract
This article processes the issues of the culture politics in socialistic Czechoslovakia in the years from 1948 to 1989 and part of the State security in this field. It combines the perspective of lawmaking with the view of legal history. The base of essay is formed by the deduction in the fields of general and Czech or Czechoslovak juridical history. The entrance part describes the general framework, in which State security had an influence on cultural sphere. It defines the political control of security apparatus by the communistic party, legal conditions for activities of State security in the culture, the security propaganda as peculiar manifestation of the culture politics, the conception of ideological sabotage in the culture and finally usage of police methods by the regulation of art and science. The following section uses the general knowledge on four basic social areas with the close relation on culture sphere. It describes the activities of State security against free literature, the independent music, the young people and foreign radio broadcasting. The last piece sums up the authors’ findings and delimits the elemental relations between power and culture under circumstances of the rule of communistic party with emphasis on legal links.
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