Mobilization and autonomization stages of marxist discontinuity in Czechoslovak geographical thought

Anotace: The Marxist discontinuity in geographical thought, which we pointed out in our previous work (Matlovič, Matlovičová 2020), is a specific case. It was caused by geopolitical changes after World War II, when Czechoslovakia came under the influence of the Soviet Union. This led to the onset of the communist regime in 1948 and the subsequent fundamental transformation of the political establishment, the economic system and socio-cultural life, which did not bypass the field of education and science. It was mainly the ideological indoctrination of science and higher education by dialectical and historical materialism of the Soviet type (Marxism-Leninism) and the subordination of education and research to the power interests of the Communist Party. We consider this paper only as an introduction to the study of this issue. Its aim is to identify the initial manifestations of the onset of Marxist discontinuity in Czechoslovak geography, to point out its main actors and at the same time to identify possible convergent and divergent features of this onset in Czech and Slovak geography. As a theoretical and methodological framework for our research, we have decided to base our paper on the Latour-Barnes model of changing scientific discipline.