The section containing reviews of exhibitions informs us about five shows in 2006 and 2007. At the turn of 2006/2007 the Institute of Ethnography of the Moravian Museum in Brno prepared an exhibition titled The World Under the Glass; it was the first time the museum was able to show off its rich collection. It showed the transformations of wax from processing to the wide range of finished products and their different uses. Special attention was paid to little wax statues and objects under glass cover. The exhibition About the Work of Human Hands was compiled by the Wallachian Open-Air Museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. It was devoted to handicrafts in the Wallachia and Těšín region. It connected presentation of historic handicrafts in the area at the turn of the 19th and the 20th centuries with introduction of contemporary craftsmen awarded the prestigious title Bearer of the Folk Craft tradition., The exhibition in Luhačovice, I’ve Lost My Little Apron, dealt with the traditional costume in Luhačovické Zálesí region. Collections assembled by the Václavík brothers in the first half of the 20th century were used - many of them had not been shown before. The exhibition Photo Koukal Uherský Ostroh was created through co-operation between the city of Uherský Ostroh and the Institute of Ethnography of the Moravian Museum in Brno. It tracked the thirty-year history of a local photographic studio. It is possible to identify changes in people’s clothing in the town as well as in the village thanks to the well-preserved studio and portrait production. The long period of time even allows us to see changes within one family or of one person. The exhibition For Czech Daughters in the Institute of Ethnography of the Moravian Museum in Brno introduced the history of the Ladies’ Educational Association Vesna. the exhibition shows different aspects of the association’s work, individual spheres of interest, personalities and other external collaborators involved in the association’s activities., and Abstrakt je společný pro 5 zpráv o výstavních akcích uvedených v oddílu Výstavy
Miroslav Kusý (1931–2019) was a Marxist-orientated Slovak philosopher who, after the crackdown on the Czechoslovak reform process in August 1968, applied a critical reading of the official interpretation of Marxism. An example of this is the short essay “To Be a Marxist in Czechoslovakia,” from 1984. Like other of his critical statements written in the 1970s and 1980s, it was published only in samizdat. In this text, published here for the first time in English, Kusý summarizes, explains, and criticizes the official interpretation of Marxism and counterposes his own understanding of it. In doing so, Kusý fits into the tradition that revolves around finding a correct interpretation of Marx. Dirk Mathias Dalberg, after a biographical outline and a short overview on the political thinking of Miroslav Kusý in the 1970s and 1980s, introduces the text and names Kusý’s main arguments. Dalberg places Kusý’s thinking into the broader context of contemporary dissident thinking in Czechoslovakia and offers further readings which show Kusý’s understanding of Marxism in concrete examples. and Dirk Mathias Dalberg, ed.