Correspondence; Milan Myška; František Kutnar; Historiography; Normalisation

Tato edice korespondence zahrnuje čtyři dopisy napsané profesorem Myškou a zaslané profesoru Kutnarovi, dále čtyři dopisy napsané profesorem Kutnarem jako odpovědi v letech 1971-1981. V dopisech se oba pánové vyjadřují ke složité pozici lidí pracujících v humanitních oborech po ukončení Pražského jara a nástupu normalizace. Myška byl tehdy vyhozen z Pedagogické fakulty a pro svou nezaměstnanost byl nucen získávat si živobytí spoluprací na výzkumných úkolech, zatímco Kutnar byl podobně donucen odejít do důchodu.

This edition of correspondence contains four letters written by Professor Myška sent to Professor Kutnar, as well as four letters written by Professor Kutnar in response from the years 1971-1981. The letters attest to the difficult positions of people working in the humanities after the defeat of the Prague Spring and the onset of normalisation. At the start of this process, the then Associate Prof. Myška was removed from the Pedagogical Faculty and due to his unemployment, he was forced to make his living by cooperating in research tasks, while Associate Prof. Kutnar was similarly forced into retirement. However, he expressed his faith in the ?restoration of values, in the restoration of societal relationships, in which a structuredorder would once again assume the foremost position?, which he unfortunately did not liveto see.