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Josef Redlich, liberal scholar in the times of crisis
Koluch, Petr Vilém ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee)
This thesis covers the personality of Josef Redlich, a university professor and a member of the House of Deputies of the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Council representing Moravia, who was appointed the Austrian Minister of Finance at difficult times. His extensive estate allows us to understand the Austrian society and follow its social transformation. The purpose of the research project focused on Josef Redlich is to provide a comprehensive analysis of social phenomena in the years 1848-1918, which led to the disintegration of the monarchy and the establishment of individual republican states. The thesis comprises three story lines. The first part of the thesis, conceived from the perspective of cultural history, seeks to find a link between the birth of the modernist movement and the rise and fall of the liberal regime in Austria- Hungary. It describes the rise of the bourgeois class, the Jewish patriarchy and the Redlichs, a South Moravian business family, together with the story of Josef Redlich. It also presents the relation of bourgeoisie to art and its role of the bearer of cultural and social transformation in the 19th century. Based on the study of the results of Austrian researchers and recognised personalities from the field of cultural history, the thesis aims to introduce social changes...
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A Slightly Different 1930s - A Perspective on the 1930s Crises through the Eyes of Czech Community in America, 1929-1939.
Durčák, Michael ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee)
Czech immigrants in America played an important role in the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia after World War I, and even today more than one million Americans claim Czech ancestry. Czech Americans understandably kept a close eye on the young democracy in the centre of Europe during the interwar period. Their reflection is recorded primarily within the regional periodicals, which, despite their partial availability, are still not sufficiently reflected within the historiography. In general, the most researched period is the "peak" period of the immigrants America around the First World War, but elsewhere there are large gaps, especially in the interwar period. In my thesis, I will attempt a comparative view of Czechs in America on the events of 1929 to 1939, with the outer points of my examination being the crash of the New York Stock Exchange in the fall of 1929 to the occupation of the remnants of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany and the declaration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939. I will focus specifically on Czech periodicals published in three locations - Chicago, Nebraska, and Texas. Comparing these three perspectives will yield a unique comparison of the perspective of Czech Americans across urban and rural areas in three different states across the United...
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Changes of Terezín in the Time of the first half of the 20th century
Kumpfová, Kristýna ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee)
Terezín is a special type of city, the origin of which was not determined by economic but by military reasons. It was founded in the 18th century as a fortress town and became the seat of a military garrison (which, except for the Second World War, resided here until the 1990s). Terezín was located in a mixed German-Czech area and, after the secession of the Sudetenland, found itself on the very border with the Third Reich. The construction of the city at the end of the 18th century, including its significance and later the history of the Jewish ghetto, is the subject of many historical works. But the period of the end of the monarchy and the first republic in Terezín is still waiting for greater historical research. The starting point of my work is the gradual transformation of the city during the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, depending on how the strategic importance of the city as a military fortress changed. Shortly after its completion, Terezín began to become morally and technically obsolete. The rapid development of new weapons systems, and especially the development of war techniques, when numerous units with rear security could move by rail, and armies became much more mobile, all this determined the further development of the city. The stationary fortress could be bypassed...
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Small-town drama: The Search for Identity in Dvůr Králové nad Labem in the period of the Great War and the Revolution
Rejchrt, Ivo ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee) ; Kessler, Vojtěch (referee)
Submitted work aims on studying changes of life, identity, and loyalty of citizens in Dvůr Králové nad Labem during World War I. The first step is to describe economy, self-governance, and state administration in a town which was developing dynamically in the last pre-war decade thanks to significant industrialization. Self-governance and state administration, which cooperated to maintain order even during the coup days in 1918, tried to reduce war and economic difficulties, poverty, and supply shortages. District National Council was able to enforce the dismissal of the district governor, but then the administrative continuity of the district governor office was maintained. The democratisation of the right to vote changed the distribution of political power in the town, but the victory of the Czechoslovak Socialists and the second place of the National Democrats (contrary to national results) demonstrate maintaining the dominance of voters' national feelings. The second step is the analysis of contemporary press. Two newspapers gradually closed (one in the meantime published a Russian manifesto), but the third survived the entire war and witnessed changes in censorship and propaganda. The third step is research into local education, which reflects state propaganda, "mobilization" of the background...
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(The Czechoslovakian presidential election in 1927 and its reception in the press)
Folda, Marek ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee)
The Czechoslovakian presidential election in 1927 and its reception in the press Abstract: The topic of the bachelor's thesis is the third presidential election of the Czechoslovak Republic in May 1927, focusing on its reflextion in the press. President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who has already been elected twice, decided for a third candidacy and his only opponent eventually became a member of Communist Party Václav Šturc. Masaryk originally wanted to push for the election of Foreign Minister Edvard Beneš, who, however, did not have sufficient support from the political scene. The president has already announced that he does not intend to go to a possible second round a has left the negotiations on the election entirely in the hands of Prime Minister Antonín Švehla. Before the presidential election, a debate broke out in the press between newspapers supporting Masaryk and those who opposed it. This thesis aims to capture and describe this press dispute.
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Czechoslovak maneuvers 1933 - 1938
Valenta, Radek ; Šedivý, Ivan (advisor) ; Čechurová, Jana (referee)
Main theme of the thesis is the Czechoslovak Maneuvers in 1936. The thesis is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter focuses on the creation of Czechoslovak army, the perion 1918-1932. The second chapter targets the reorganization of army in the period 1932-1936. The Third chapter is dedicated to the issue of armed forces in the period of the Austrian emperor.The fourth chapter is focused on the Czechoslovak Maneuvres in 1936 and research preparations, course, and made knowleges from the great interwar's maneuvres of Czechoslovak army. The fifth chapter closes arbitration service in the maneuvres. The sixth chapter deals with foreign's delegations on maneuvers and finally the seventh chapter is devoted to attitude and reakcions of czechoslovak's press and mankind.
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Benešov and the changes of its society 1918-1921
Jiráň, Jan ; Šedivý, Ivan (advisor) ; Čechurová, Jana (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to analyze if, respectively how much society in Benešov changed after first WWI. I was inspired by microhistory, comparison and probe method to map the period. I try to depict, how the society in Benešov developed. My main intention is to show, that development society in Benešov was after WWI mostly discontinuous, however we can find some examples of continuity. To be specific I research problems of municipal politics, education, Church, army, culture or associational life. They are questions that cannot by simply answered, for example one of them was Konopiště castle case. Described events are put in nationwide context. The main sources for my thesis were regional origin sources. Another information to my topic I got from contemporary press.
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The national trial with Radola Gajda 1947. A case study
Král, Martin ; Šedivý, Ivan (advisor) ; Gebhart, Jan (referee)
The topic of the study is the case of Radola Gajda, a former legionary and Czechoslovak general, before the National Court in 1947. After a short presentation of Radola Gajda, the study deals with his activity during the Second Czechoslovak Republic and the Protectorate. It outlines the origins of retributive justice, but it mostly focuses on Gajda's case. I have raised questions relating to the objectivity of the court, the way of its approach to the accused person and the possibility of interference in the judge's impartiality. I have also done some research into the way how the party press informed about this case. I have discovered that in 1947 Radola Gajda was no longer a politically important person, and I did not manage to find any significant interference into the investigation and the law case. The court gave equal space both to the defence and the plaintiff, and it sensibly assessed the evidence of both parties. The press of the individual political parties informed about the trial in a very brief way, and left-wing dailies in particular were more likely to present information aimed against the accused.
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Signal - the propaganda of Wehrmacht in occupied Europe and the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia 1940-1945
Beneš, Otmar ; Michela, Miroslav (advisor) ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee)
Presented bachelor thesis is an analysis of one of the important printed nazi-propaganda matter from the era of World War II - the Signal magazine. This thesis aims to analyse mostly the period of time between April 1940 and April 1945, when the editorial office of the magazine was in service. According to the distribution in the whole Europe and the fact, that the magazine was produced until the very end of the war, the author wants to make a comparison of the magazines content, which should not only reside in the research of the text content, which was changing strongly during the war, but also in analysing the different acceptance and character in occupied and neutral countries. The interest will be focused on the picture of war presented to the civilian population in particular European countries. Of countries, where the Signal magazine was distributed to, is a special accent given to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Key words Signal, 1940 - 1945, Wehrmacht, propaganda, Europe, Protectorate, illustrated magazine, second world war, press, photography.
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The Czech fascist movement in the period of the first Czechoslovak Republic, with an emphasis on developments in the region of Pardubice
Benda, Michal ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee)
Presented thesis focuse on the phenomenon of the Czech fascist movement in the period of the first Czechoslovak Republic, with an emphasis on developments in the Pardubice region. Czech fascism and extreme nationalism, which was mainly represented by the National Fascist Community, formed a distinctive part of the domestic political scene in Czechoslovakia in the inter- war period and therefore it deserves a more detailed research.These thesis do not aim to create a synthetic study of the Czech fascism during the first republic, or try to cover the development of the national Fascist Community and other fascist and extremely nationalist organizations throughout the territory of Czechoslovakia. The main target is to create a regional probe that detects the specifics of that movement in the chosen region. Czech fascism in the Pardubice region copied nationwide development in many ways, yet it is possible to define the specifics distinguishing that region.It was mainly about the unusual social composition of the interwar Pardubice caused by sharp demographic changes since the second half of the nineteenth century, by the existence of a large number of retired soldiers and Legionnaires or by the absence of significant ethnic minorities.The fate of Vojtěch Vážný who was the central figure of the local...
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