ABSTRACT
IN the postwar socialist bloc, the Conservation Movement was as diverse as in the West. Here,however, the differences were not over the extent of state intervention in heritage, as between Western Europe and America. State oversight of conservation, in the interests of ‘the people’, was
naturally taken for granted. Instead, the most contentious issue was how socialist principles of
intervention and universalism could be reconciled with the traditional conservation values of
national heritage and pride.2
