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MEZINÁRODNÍ KONGRES ASOCIACE PRO VÝZKUM KVARTÉRU V LENINGRADĚ V ROCE 1932. Dokumenty k účasti Karla Absolona a recepci sovětské meziválečné paleolitické archeologie a ideologické propagandy
| Title in English | INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF EUROPEAN QUATERNARY IN LENINGRAD IN 1932 Documents on the participation of Karel Absolon and the reception of Soviet interwar Palaeolithic archaeology and ideological propaganda |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae Sociales |
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| Keywords | History of archaeology, Soviet Archaeology, Czech Archaeology, Karel Absolon, Propaganda and Ideology. |
| Description | The text evaluates the participation of the Moravian archaeologists Karel Absolon and Josef Skutil at the Second International Congress of the Association for the Study of European Quaternary, which took place in Leningrad in September 1932. The work starts from the study of the unpublished archival fund from the legacy of Karel Absolon, deposited at the Moravian Museum. Besides a description of the course of the congress and extensive twenty-day excursion around the European parts of Russia, the congress is evaluated in the wider historical and political context. Despite the fact that the congress took place at the time of the Great Famine in Ukraine and in the adjacent areas, which the participants visited, the image of life in the Soviet Union was perceived positively. The Leningrad congress is also observed as a successful project of Soviet international ideological propaganda. |