State Institutes and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1948–1953

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Jůnová Macková, Adéla
State Institutes and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1948–1953.
Studia historiae scientiarum. Roč. 16, [0] (2017), s. 241-267. ISSN 2451-3202
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985921
Klíčová slova: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences * Czechoslovakia, 1948–1953
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

State institutes started emerging shortly after the establishment of the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918) in the form of institutions affiliated to the Ministry of Schools and National Education. They were independent scientific institutions receiving regular state subsidies and their scientific focus and budgets were approved by the state. The Institute of Archaeology and the National Institute for Folk Songs were founded in 1919, while the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Institute of Slavic Studies were planned to be established under the law as early as in 1922, even though they were actually set up later, in 1928; we can already observe their activities in the 1920s. The paper aims to show in particular the organizational transformation of these institutions from 1948 until 1952 or 1953, when they “voluntarily” became part of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, using the incorporation of state institutes into the Academy of Sciences to give a clearer picture of the centralization of sciences in the 1950s, arranged according to the Soviet model.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0285516