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False heroes. Removal of communist monuments in Prague after year 1989
Homutová, Ludmila ; Pech, Milan (advisor) ; Bendová, Eva (referee)
False heroes. Removal of communist monuments in Prague after year 1989 This thesis will examine monuments, established to promote communist ideology, that were removed after the Velvet Revolution and in the next few years of the 1990s in an attempt to symbolically abolish former regime. Firstly it will outline the historical context. Based on contemporary periodicals and public politicians speeches it will show social discourse regarding relation towards communism and notions what the new regime should be like. After it will deal with the concept of historical memory, places of memory and their change and rewriting. It will also compare this momument removal with iconoclasm that accompanied other revolutions. In its main part the thesis will follow several cases of monument displacements of statues of heroes and leaders, constituting events and artifacts - symbols. It will attempt to demonstrate how the monuments disappeared from the public space and how these events and the removal itself helped construction of historical memory besides the creation of monuments that are supposed to commemorate communist totalitarianism. It will also mention existing monuments that were put up during years 1948 - 1989, that stir up discussion to this day and it will touch how other countries of the Eastern Bloc...
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Czechoslovak Art in the Service of Communism as Political Religion
Homutová, Ludmila ; Pech, Milan (advisor) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
Czechoslovak Art in the Service of Communism as Political Religion The Bachelor's thesis will focus on Czechoslovak art during period between 1948 and 1989 and its role within communist regime with respect to its quasi-religious character. It is not coincidence that communism is described as political religion. The thesis will try to define impact of this political religion on Czechoslovak art. It will explicate the term political religion and also conception of communism as political religion. Then it will characterize socialist realism, outcome of socialist ideology. Main part of the thesis will be analysis of particular art works regarding pseudo-religious aspects of communism: manipulative mythologization of history, glorification of leaders, creating sacred places and rituals Key words: Czechoslovakia 1948 - 1989, communism, mythologization, political religion, sacralization of politics, socialist realism
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