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"Kuličkáři a Zetoráci"
Pechová, Iva ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
The Abstract The main topic of this thesis is the Zetor, an industrial factory in Brno. This factory is a part of Czech (Czechoslovak) industrial history for a long time. His role was also very important in Brno. The first topic was the history of Zetor from its beginning to present years. I was also interested how the changes in November 1989 were visible in Zetor and what were their impact on the factory itself and its staff. I was studying the years between 1989 and 1992 in detail, too. The industrial titan from Brno went through a several economic depressions in these years. What were the reasons of this depressions and their impact on factory's working class? Zetor was a kind of a "family firm" for most of them. They were working here for years, their ancestors were working here too, they met here their husbands, wifes or lifelong friends. A lot of them were impressionable to the changes not only because of their proffesional but also from their personal perspective. And it is a true, that the Zetor is a really good example of positives or negatives of the post revolution time in Czech industry and tens of thousands members of the working proffesion. Key words: industrial factories, workers, the "velvet" revolution, economic depression, privatization
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Emigration from communistic Czechoslovakia and Czechs in Denmark
Kleinová, Nikola ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee)
This thesis is dealing with emigration from Czechoslovakia during the reign of Communistic party in 1948-1989. The aim of the thesis is to interpret phenomenon of the emigration and exile in historical context and to supplement it with testimonies of Czechoslovak émigrés in Denmark, which was not very usual aim of Czech emigration. Emigration is caused by different reasons during periods, which makes the fundamental difference between emigration and exile. The thesis is concerning on unique motives and causal links of the emigration of every single interviewee as well as particular process of emigration and its influence to their attitude to native Czechoslovakia.
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Funeral ceremony in the second half of the 20th century
Šafránková Šídová, Erika ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Urbášek, Pavel (referee)
Death is an ever-present fact in human life and it affects its life course. Stable form of funeral ritual is developed from the need for reconciliation with one's own mortality and loss of loved ones. Traditional funeral ceremony based on combination of lore and Christian ritual had changed due to changes in political and social life during the 20th century. Probably the biggest effect had the administration of communist party which lasted for 40 years and which used funeral ceremony as propaganda of its regime. The struggle with traditional Christian funeral was connected with an open fight with church as such and was caused by communist effort to dominate social life. Instead of traditional Christian funeral communism proclaimed cremation as an anticlerical burial option. Effects of communism then developed new funeral rituals. This text is motivated by the effort to identify perception of death and its changes in Czech republic in the second half of the 20th century, using literary and oral sources. It searches for an answer to the question of whether communist regime changed funeral ritual and tries to identify it in taped oral sources.
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Changes of Zahradní Město - Záběhlice in lifestories of its natives
Kolářová, Dana ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Krátká, Lenka (referee)
The topic of this thesis is the way native inhabitants look at the changes of Zahradní Město and the old part of Záběhlice. It also describes its inhabitants' experience of these changes. The thesis employs the methodological approach of oral history, analyzing and interpreting interviews with people who were born or have spent the majority of their active life in that particular area. As a result, what comes to light is how much Zahradní Město and the old part of Záběhlice have changed over the last fifty years and, in a certain way, is changing still. It shows the evolution of a distant suburb as it came to be a part of the wider city centre of Prague, which faces typical urbanisation problems now. According to its inhabitants, Zahradní Město is best considered an independent part of Prague, even though it is officially "just" a part of Záběhlice. The mutual relationship of the inhabitants of Zahradní Město and the old part of Záběhlice is another topic of this thesis, as it tries to describe this relationship and find possible factors that have formed it. The thesis starts with an historical overview, following the way Prague was formed and divided regarding municipal administration. It then moves on to methodology, which describes the process of planning and the realization of the project...
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The Ideal of Human Body and its Portrayal in the Media
Vaněk, Miroslav ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Lorman, Jaroslav (referee)
The ideal of the human body and it's portrayal in the media The bachelor thesis named "The ideal of the human body and it's portrayal in the media" compares the differences between the approach to the human body in the Holy scripture and modern media, how the media presents it, especially in women's magazines. This also points to more serious problems, which can be caused by the portrayal of the human body presented in modern media. Key words: Ideal, human body, person, media, the beauty, the Holy scripture
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JUDr. PhDr. Karel Vaš
Pižlová, Martina ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Maslowski, Nicolas (referee)
The aim of this thesis has been an analysis of the trial of General Heliodor Píka, who was convicted for abusing his service power and military treason and executed in 1949. Since he was a distinct personality in Czechoslovak history and his trial was one of the first post- war show trials, it will be necessary to characterize the period of 1950's in the former Czechoslovakia. Here we focus primarily on the political situation. Information on the Píka's trial I gained from a direct participant, Mr. Karel Vaš, who, according to an extant material, featured in the position of the investigating prosecutor. Therefore I would also like to present briefly his life story, mainly to put us into the context of his time in post-war Czechoslovakia. At this point it should be emphasized I used the method of oral history with subsequent analysis of archival sources. Therefore the aim of the work is not to evaluate the personality and deeds of Karel Vaš, but to offer a comprehensive view of the above issues embedded in the context of his time. Keywords: World war II, Heliodor Píka, Karel Vaš, Communist Party, The Millitary Counterintelligence OBZ, Soviet Union.
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In the name of progress: Destinies of inhabitants of "disappeared" Dolní Jiřetín.
Kryšpínová, Tereza ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Miroslav (referee)
This master thesis deals with the story of village of Dolní Jiřetín, liquidated on the beginning of 1980s, and a destiny of its inhabitants who lived in the village until it disappeared. Dolní Jiřetín was one of many villages destroyed in region of Most since World War II because of an expansion of coal mining and chemical industry. However, its liquidation was unique because the village was divided into two parts. The southeast of the village became part of sanitary zone of chemical works in Záluží, the rest of Dolní Jiřetín was undermined by colliery called Centrum. This thesis describes history of the village and life of its inhabitants before the liquidation, especially in time of industrialization boom. The text concentrates on development of both causes of disappearance of the village - brown coal collieries and chemical works in the region of Most. Then it follows the liquidation itself, since preparation through realization to what happened in the village after all the inhabitants left. It shows the process both from the side of institutions which organized the liquidation and from the view of inhabitants of Dolní Jiřetín. In the end the thesis deals with a case of village of Horní Jiřetín which shared some parts of its history with Dolní Jiřetín and today it faces probably very similar...
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Kopisty: why we had to leave!
Pšenicová, Barbora ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Miroslav (referee)
Diploma thesis "Kopisty: why we had to leave!" refers to a village in Most district which has been destroyed and its people had to be evicted based on the plan of the mining industry. As the official reason for the liquidation has been mentioned the open-cast mine Ležáky. But, the thesis demonstrates, is not the only cause. The other causes of the liquidation are deep mines Jan Hus and Julius III. and expansion of sanitary zone of chemical plants. It has been proven by the investigation and it is stated in the thesis, all these factors had crucial influence on the village. The need of increased production has caused a slump of the houses and roads in Kopisty. It is surprising that, except Ležáky and chemical plants, there is no allusion to these reasons in the official plan of liquidation. The entire thesis is based on archival sources, research and oral history. The main goal is to precisely reconstruct the process of dismantling and demolition of the village. There is a documentary evidence that the phase from 1976-1981 was not the only one and that there were already demolition of buildings before. This is also confirmed by the fact that local people knew about the liquidation already in the sixties. I do not want to avoid even the up-to-date themes as are the reclamation of the city Most,...
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Political Prisoners of Jáchymov. Oral History in Theory and Practice
Bouška, Tomáš ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
The aim of this doctoral thesis combines the possibilities of oral history in theory and practice. The first part prepares the field for delivering results of my research which is targeted at mapping and understanding recent history using oral histories of twelve survivors of communist régime imprisoned in the 1950s in the Jachymov district. At first, I demonstrate the usage of oral history and related thinking about it abroad and in the Czech context. I deliver the empirical material of this work using this method. It consists from life stories and personal testimonies of former political prisoners who have been organised in the Confederation of Political Prisoners after 1989 in the Czech Republic. Apart from methodological collection, analysis and interpretation of their life stories I point at further processing and introduction of such a research to the wide and expert public. I believe in the premise that personal testimonies of narrators represent a contribution to understanding "small history and its human aspect - here dealing with the Czechoslovak political persecution in 1950s. I also describe the evolution of my research project which I managed to enlarge and link to other academic work of my PhD. colleagues. Like this I hope to give birth to a (hopefully) unique multidisciplinary project which...
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