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Saint Rosa
Malínek, Vojtěch
Obviously, young Czech poetry had become more and more influenced by the ascending communistic ideology after World War I, which resulted in its evident ideologization. The need for new „saints“ to be celebrated arised, satisfied by an „enthronization“ of the German communist Rosa Luxemburg in the Czech context. The paper starts with analyzing the reception of her personality in the leftist Czech press, following the activities of the communist organisation Proletkult that was trying to promote Luxemburg as an exemplary „communist saint“ early in the 1920s, and inquires into the representation of Luxemburg in the texts by leftist poets such as S. K. Neumann, J. Wolker and A. M. Píša. Eventually, a description of the gradual decline of the Luxemburg cult in the following years is given.
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Saint Rosa
Malínek, Vojtěch
Obviously, young Czech poetry had become more and more influenced by the ascending communistic ideology after World War I, which resulted in its evident ideologization. The need for new „saints“ to be celebrated arised, satisfied by an „enthronization“ of the German communist Rosa Luxemburg in the Czech context. The paper starts with analyzing the reception of her personality in the leftist Czech press, following the activities of the communist organisation Proletkult that was trying to promote Luxemburg as an exemplary „communist saint“ early in the 1920s, and inquires into the representation of Luxemburg in the texts by leftist poets such as S. K. Neumann, J. Wolker and A. M. Píša. Eventually, a description of the gradual decline of the Luxemburg cult in the following years is given.
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