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The academic publication “The development of the Czech higher economic education in the years 1945-1953” analyzes the transformation of the higher economic education after the year 1945; it observes who was the bearer of the interwar economic traditions of teaching economy. First and foremost it focuses on the personal question, meaning the assemblage of the teaching staff of the universities focusing on economy, mainly the Czech Technical University in Prague and the University of Economics in Prague. It further analyzes the communist party policy, the role of specific politicians and the process of the reorganization of the universities that were focusing on training economists and national economists; the process lasted several years. The study analyzes the awarding of academic degrees in the 1950’s at VŠE and it inquires which subjects were preferred, in details if the university leading staff at that time was paying extraordinary attention to the development of the economic policy. The publication proves that the dominant effort in the 1940’s and 1950’s was to build universities according to the Soviet model. The thesis that the University of Economics in Prague primarily continued the legacy of the Czech Technical University in Prague of the First Czechoslovak republic is from a personal point of view indefensible. The University of Economics in Prague was formed from the University of Political and Economic Sciences, an institution established by the communists with the goal to prepare appropriate cadres for the Stalinist planned economy. Stalinism, repression and no factual concept were the basic circumstances that caused the transformation of the econ. higher teaching at the end of the 1940’s and during the 1950’s. It is impossible to write about a long-term, conceptual and planned development of the university environment in the 1950’s. The historical analysis is accompanied by the analysis of the current state of the higher economic education.