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This paper discusses the tourism in places in connection with "class struggle" during the era of state socialism in Czechoslovakia. During the time of economic crisis in the 1930s, there were some incidents between gendarmerie and striking workers in the areas of high unemployment. These events were misused in the propaganda as legitimization of the Communist Party's leading role after the 1948 revolution. These places of "class struggle" were privileged in hierarchy of heritage preservation during the communist era (1948-1989). The author focuses on sources connected with tourism (guidebooks, maps) and raises the question if historical agents and society adopted these places. The methodological remarks are an important part of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite of the fact that studies on the topic of "places of remembrance" reached an inflationary number in the last decades, the article argues for the need of new perspectives in this field. They are identified as bilateral and transnational "places of remembrance", valid not only for a national community but also for smaller communities on regional and transregional levels. With the definitions of the key concepts "remembrance" and "places", the article strives to sketch out the theoretical background for studies, dealing with specific problems of German-Czech or Bavarian-Bohemian histories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]