DUBOVSKÝ, Patrik. Students of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava during November 1989 - courageously, cheerfully, and seriously

The role and significance of the activities of university students in Slovakia and Czechoslovakia during the collapse of the communist regime have not yet been sufficiently professionally processed and appreciated in society. A similarly important challenge is to map the nonconforming expressions and activities of students before November 1989. At the same time, the courage, invention, and culture of these activities on universities grounds in November 1989, and subsequently "in the squares" as well, can be highly appreciated. Similarly, several documents – challenges, programs, statements, or proposals for solutions, the leaders of the student movement were able to formulate, publish and disseminate during the Gentle Revolution can be appreciated. Probably the most important role in this process, which was initially equivalent to the activities of VPN, was played by students of the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Their attitudes and actions influenced the course of social and political changes and some of the teachers of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava as well. In this way, not only the students of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University but gradually of all universities and faculties contributed to the relatively quick and bloodless collapse of the regime. In addition, the student "hands and heads of November" managed to enrich this struggle with the aforementioned handwritten documents from which several texts and photographs are presented in this paper and several youthfully fresh and politically engaged visual expressions of the student imagination.