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Štefan Polakovič and Slovak Political Catholicism
Lenčéšová, Michaela ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Šmíd, Marek (referee) ; Šebek, Jaroslav (referee)
The dissertation explores the political thinking of the Catholic philosopher Štefan Polakovič (1912-1999), who is considered one of the main ideologists of Jozef Tiso's politics during the Slovak state (1939-1945). In the context of the political struggle between President Tiso and Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka, Polakovič participated in the Nazification of Slovak Catholic political thinking by creating Slovak and Catholic concepts inspired by the ideology of the German National Socialists. After the Second World War, from Argentina, he tried to achieve the restoration of the Slovak state and in the 1990s he was one of the apologists of Jozef Tiso's politics and a supporter of the idea of the anti-fascist Catholic resistance in the milieu of the Hlinka Slovak People's Party. The main aim of this dissertation is to investigate, what were the main reasons for Polakovič's fascism and why he considered the nation-state as the only acceptable form of statehood for the Slovak nation. Although the dissertation concentrates mainly on Polakovic's thinking during the Slovak state period, it also pays attention to Polakovič's thinking during Argentine emigration in an attempt to reflect the development of his thinking throughout the twentieth century. First, this dissertation describes the birth and history of...
The view of american film in the Fifties in Czechoslovakia
Poliačik, Cyril ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Koura, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the view of American film formed by the journalists in Czechoslovakian film periodicals in the period after the second world war and in the fifties. My goal was to show how much the point of view of Czechoslovakian film journalists on American film changed during this period, which topics were discussed and to what extent was the view identical to the ideology of CPC. In the thesis I worked with the the film periodicals, mostly with periodicals Kino, Filmová práce, Filmové noviny and communist cultural magazine Tvorba. The first chapter deals with the cultural and political situation, mostly in the third republic, it particularly focuses on film periodicals and film journalists. The second chapter presents the image of American film presented in Czechoslovakian film periodicals. This chapter consists of five parts, where first part is introductional and gives definitions of specific phenomenons and the other four parts explain the image of American film on concrete themes. First chapter is about cultural and political situacion, mostly in third republic, with focus on film periodicals and film journalists. Second chapter is the view of american film present in Czechoslovakian film periodicals. This chapter consist of five parts, where first part is general introduction and defined...
Exile magazine Sunday Herald at the turn of 1989/1990
Brichta, Miloslav ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Roubal, Petr (referee)
Sunday Herald is the date of its establishment, the year 1891, the oldest expatriate general periodical. It represents an interesting probe into the way of thinking expatriate community over time, due to historicals events in Europe is also becoming a journal created by exiles. Reflection on the events of 1989 shows the wiewpoint of its creators, for the most part voluntary contributors evaluation evolution from a distance and taking into account their own life experiences and ideas. Texts excel straightforward rawness, linguistic style and emphasis on the Czech national tradition reminiscent of the world thought the first half of the twentieth century. The reason is the mix of authors and contributors, there are basically two groups, the first, settlers living in the United States for many generations are taking 6 linguistic composition of the czech language and intellectual world of his parents and grandparents, second, post ,,February,, and a smaller part, post ,,August,, exiles to bring the picture of home in form, it would be remembered at the time of their escape. In the political orientation of articles and news commentaries outweighs consistent anticommunism with certain elements of Christian conservatism. There are also anti-Semitism, a racist subtext include articles from South African...
Munich Complex and National Identity in Czech samizdat and tamizdat
Kyselý, Milan ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Šmidrkal, Václav (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to answer the question why is the Munich complex so essential for samizdat and tamizdat authors, how important was its influence on moral decline of the Czech nation, what was its role in the inability to avoid communist plot in 1948 or in the fail of the Prague spring. . The methodological approach of the presented historical-critical analysis of Munich complex in political thinking of dissent and democratic opposition in exile stems from the interpretation of history of ideas by Aloysius P. Martinich, and the conception of symbolic center by Miloš Havelka. In the introductory part, I analyze the Munich agreement in its historical context and the interpretation of events leading to Munich in the official Communist historiography during the sixties and seventies. It is important for better orientation in individual approaches of analyzed authors. The main focus of the thesis is the analysis of publications relating to Munich events from chosen authors. I confront their conclusions with interpretation of Jan Tesař, whose work is the culmination of samizdat discussion about this topic. There is no unified definition of the Munich complex. It is is mostly associated with president Edvard Beneš and moral decline of the Czech nation. Almost all authors mention the need to...
The concept of hooligan and the reflection of hooliganism phenomenon in Czechoslovakia (1948-1969): law, police and journalism
Kotalík, Matěj ; Rákosník, Jakub (advisor) ; Kopeček, Michal (referee)
This MA thesis deals with the phenomenon of the so-called hooliganism and its reflection in Czechoslovakia 1948-1969 in law, police and journalism. It is divided into eight chapters. The Introduction recapitulates the actual topic-related historical texts and formulates the questions the thesis should answer. Chapter two defines theoretical concepts of socialist dictatorships, anomie and subculture the thesis intends to work with. Chapter three focuses on the development of the hooliganism concept in the Soviet Union from where the concept was brought to Czechoslovakia. Chapter four analyses the changes of hooliganism concept in law (legislation, legal discourse and legal practice) and reflects hooliganism as an example of cultural transfer. Chapter five focuses on hooliganism problem faced by the police, on success or limits of the police work. Chapter six focuses on the reflection of hooliganism in Czech press as field of divergent or similar opinions and as an example of subcultural redefinition. Chapter seven compares the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia with the same phenomenon in other countries of Central Europe. The Conclusion summarises the knowledge obtained about hooliganism and thinks about a possible future enlargement of the topic.
National Identity in the Propaganda of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (May 1945 - May 1946)
Poliaková, Martina ; Činátl, Kamil (advisor) ; Kopeček, Michal (referee)
National legitimacy played in the politics of post-war Communist Party of Czechoslovakia an important role. The addressees of communist policy should primarily be "members of the nation." The subject of my research work in this way was the formulation of national identity and its role in the Communist politics in the first postwar year, especially the cultural field. For the conceptualization of the concept of propaganda in the Communist Party, I was inspired discourse analytical approaches that have helped me in exploring answers to the question of the role of Czech national identity in the propaganda of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Prospect of Violent Solution in the Crisis of the Communist Regimes in 1989: The Case of Czechoslovakia from the Central European Perspective
Netolická, Zuzana ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Tůma, Oldřich (referee)
The bachalor thesis deals with the prospects of violent solutions of the events in Czechoslovakia in 1988 and 1989. To compare, there are outlined the events in Central Europe, to that this work also counts, except Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and GDR. The bachalor thesis is dividet into two parts. The first one has two chapters. In these is a description of the events in the second half of the eighties in Central Europe. In the second part of the thesis is described what kind power and party bodies were involved in deciding on possible interventions and who conducted actions. The final chapter explains three main factors that influences the course in 1989. The main sources of work are archival materials from the meeting of the Central Committee, collection Securitas imperii and interviews with senior communists. The result of work is that prospects of violent solution was very small, because the situations has influenced by several consequential factors.
The Academic Milieu in Times of Communist Vetting - Higher Education in 1948-1956. Post-war Reform of Czech Higher Education and Is Origins
Jareš, Jakub ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Petráň, Josef (referee) ; Šima, Karel (referee)
This thesis deals with a reform of Czech higher education after the Second World War. While traditional treatments follow the communist experiment from its beginnings until its 'inevitable' downfall in 1989, this work focuses on its roots and end with the adoption of the new Higher Education Act in 1950. This reversal of perspective reveals similarities between the communist reform and modernisation trends which influenced the development of higher education also in the West. We follow the discussion about the future of higher education, which went on in 1930s-1950s, try to see how universities tried to approach the tension between their freedoms and demands for serving the public, and analyse the way in which the communist reform responded to this issue. Czech higher education was formed by Humboldtian principles, which were partly implemented in mid-19th century. During the interwar period, this framework basically remained in place: higher education developed in terms of quantity rather than quality but certain problems with demanded attention also started coming to the fore. Attempts by the Ministry of Education to implement partial reforms met with resistance from the academic institutions and many academics focused on passionately defending the autonomy of universities. During the wartime, the...
Intellectual History of Czech Reform Communism 1968 - 1990
Andělová, Kristina ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Kolář, Pavel (referee) ; Kolenovská, Daniela (referee)
The main topic of the dissertation is the development and changes in the political thinking of Czech reform communism from 1968. While in the 1960s reform communism represented the dominant intellectual and political current, after the military invasion in August 1968 it gradually disappeared from the public discourse and was later completely suppressed by normalization propaganda and labeled as "counter- revolutionary" and "right-wing opportunist" ideology. The central questions of the thesis explore the changes that the political project of reform communism underwent during the twenty-one-year normalization period and the shifts that took place in the "horizon of expectation" of the Czechoslovak socialist opposition in the context of the intellectual and political changes of the 1970s and 1980s. The aim of the thesis is to explain the political perspectives of reform-communist intellectuals in the Czechoslovak opposition after 1968. They represented an important part of both domestic and especially exile opposition, which formed around the journal Listy. Some of them also played an important role in the creation of Charter 77 and its legalistic criticism. Nevertheless, their story does not fully fit into the traditional narrative of Czechoslovak dissent, as they never completely parted ways with...
When University Was Replaced with Flats: The Underground Education in Socialist Czechoslovakia and Poland in the Seventies and Eighties in the Twentieth Century in Comparative Perspective
Skořepa, Václav ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kopeček, Michal (referee)
This master's thesis looks into the phenomenon of unofficial education in Czechoslovakia and Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. Comparing several initiatives, the thesis analyses the context of their origins, ways of organisation, members, motivations, themes of lectures, and the position between the dissent and the Communist regime. The author focuses on the general characterisation of the phenomenon and its connection to the unofficial sphere. Keywords: education, underground seminars, flying university, opposition, socialist regime, Czechoslovakia, Poland

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