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Lidice and Ležáky - seventy years of memories
Tajčová, Tereza ; Krátká, Lenka (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee)
The diploma thesis describes the way of commemorating Lidice and Ležáky villages, which were exterminated by the Nazis during the Second World War. The text covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the image of these villages (and the tragedy of 1942) in resistance periodicals called The voice of revolution (Hlas revoluce) and the National Liberation (Národní osvobození). Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of these sources, the author interprets the image of recollection of Lidice and Ležáky tragedies in given periodicals and puts it in the context of the period. Key words: Lidice, Ležáky, National liberation, Voice of the revolution, assembly, Czech freedom fighters union
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Identity Construction in Biographical Narratives of Re-emigrants
Fürst, Václav ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Wohlmuth Markupová, Jana (referee)
Abstact The hereby presented study deals with a cross boarder migration of people during the times of communist rule in Czechoslovakia and during the period immediately following the demise of the Soviet domination in Eastern and Central Europe. The study concentrates on those individual migrants who spent a significant period of their lives abroad. This study should elucidate several key aspects of the cross boarder emigration and re-emigration (be that voluntary or forced) as seen by the respective migrants themselves. In particular, those aspects are: how a long-term residence in a foreign country altered their relationship with respect to their home country, what kind of relationship the migrants developed with respect to their new country of residence and what the very act of emigration/re-emigration itself meant in the life of each individual migrant covered by this study. One of the principal issues this study relates to is this: is it possible to consider the identities of individual migrants as having remained "national" despite their long residence in a foreign country or, alternately, is it correct to state that their identities had changed to that of an "emigrant" flavor. In each individual case of the perceived identity change the study attempts to identify the characteristics of the changed...
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Cooperation of Border guards with civic inhabitants in 60's and 70's era: example of Cheb region
Jaška, Petr ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Wohlmuth, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with theme of collaboration Border Guard troops with the civilian sector its focusing on 60's and 70's era. The topic is an overview compiled since 1945, because of better context. Work aims to map and describe the process whereby the collaborating fifth brigade of border guards in the geographic region Cheb region with residents and how the civilians had been involved to guard state borders. The author based primarily on archival material stored in the Security Services Archive in Brno - Kanice and the previously published literature. The author also used interviews with former professional officers. These interviews compiled by the method of oral history. The main criteria were chosen on the number of assistant border guards, as well as young border guards and the number of persons who were attempting to cross the state border detained for using the civilian sector. But also, many other factors were considered. The result of this work is the finding that the border guard cooperation with the civilian sector shows an upward trend in the period from the fifties to the late seventies. The highlight of this cooperation was the second half of the seventies. In the sixties, and especially the second half of the sixties, the brigade was forced to intensify the use of civilians...
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The Town Tábor in the era of the "Prague's spring" and in the beginning of normalisation (1968-1970)
Rozkydalová, Pavla ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
The paper primarily aims to depict the cultural life in the district city of Tábor against a background of the 1968 - 1970 historical events. The author describes, against the historical background, the individual cultural events and the life of the city, as well as the influence of political events which had the result that the city, and indeed the entire country, returned to the era preceding the "golden sixties". Employing the method of oral history, the author has interviewed narrators who had a proactive relationship to the cultural events in the city. Their testimonies were used as a basis for selecting topics which illustrate the cultural movement in the late 1960s as a period of liberalisation ending with normalisation which suppressed the cultural development of the city; the author especially invokes those events which were irreconcilable with the subsequent political developments in the country. The paper also refers to other resources which outline the atmosphere of the era, namely resources provided by the political authorities of the city and the Tábor City Chronicle. Using the testimonies provided by the narrators and the archival resources, the author has endeavoured to paint the most accurate picture of the atmosphere surrounding the events happening in the city in the said period....
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1st military mission of Czech soldiers after 1989
Jedlička, František ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
I. vojenská mise českých vojáků po roce 1989 5 Abstract The main objective of the thesis is to remind the Czech presence at the First Gulf War in 1990-91 and to contribute to extend the knowledge and available details related to this important event of the world history. The main sources of collecting information are interviews held by the method of Oral history with the members of Czechoslovak chemical defense battalion that was present during the Kuwait War. The contingent was headed by colonel Valo at that time. The additional source used in this assay are the archive files collected at the Central Military Archive facility as well as published articles/books dedicated to this topic. It was a first time that the contingent of the Czechoslovak Army- battalion was sent to serve abroad after 1989. Majority of the battalion members spent their live, service and duty in the political regime that had a negative attitude to the armies of the NATO members. The Czech battalion closely cooperated with the NATO armies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. With respect to the specificity of the selected theme I tried to cover not only the war conflict itself and participation of the Czech battalion there but also the previous professional life of the Czechoslovak soldiers, their relationship to the service in the Czechoslovak...
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"Hitler's gone, Stalin's gone and I'm still here." The life stories of wives and descendants of persons convicted in the trial of Rudolf Slansky
Bekrová, Kristýna ; Hlaváček, Jiří (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee)
The presented thesis deals with the reflection of the political process with anti-state conspiracy center headed by Rudolf Slánský in the lives of the families of convicted. The main goal is to bring personal experiences and attitudes of wives and descendants of sentenced persons to the political processes, and capture the changes, differences and similarities in the interpretation of these events across the generations. The working hypothesis is based on the assumption that the different historici experiences in each generation influence a perception of events in the fifties and shift the interpretation of the political process. The first part is devoted to theoretical concepts of the formation of family memory, the specifics of sources and methodological procedures. Another part of the paper is approaching process with anti-state conspiracy center and subsequent efforts to revise it and the rehabilitation of convicted. The thesis is divided according to the time periods in which an analysis and interpretation of memories of the process actors and their close relatives is done. Key words: political trial, family memory, Rudolf Slánsky, the fifties, persecution, trauma.
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"The driver, who has a hard bread." Transformation of life and work conditions as experienced by bus drivers in Prague public transport.
Sommer, Jakub ; Krátká, Lenka (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee)
The master's thesis "Řidič, ten tvrdý chleba má (describing how hard life the driver has): Changes of the life and work conditions of public transport bus drivers in Prague" tries to bring closer the work of public transport bus drivers in Prague in the period called Normalization and Transformation on the basis of the oral historical method in comparison with secondary literature and the archival research. The thesis focuses on the Prague Public transport Company drivers who worked in Dejvice and Řepy garages. Through obtaining the oral history interviews and the written documents, author explores how the profession has changed over the last forty years. Based on his research, he concludes that drivers dominant position in respect of passengers and the transport company turn into a completely opposite role at present. The topic of the thesis is not only enriching us from the perspective of individual fates but it also allows us to open the topics regarding the impact of the modern technologies on the work of ordinary people. The master's thesis helps to understand the bus driver work and life but also shows the transformation of understanding this profession in the Czech society itself. Keywords: Transport company, Busdriver, Garage Dejvice, Garage Řepy, Normalization, Transformation.
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Institute of Contemporary History
Šťastná, Magdalena ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Franc, Martin (referee)
This degree work sets itself the objective to extend well-known information about the Institute of Contemporary History, bringing precise description of the first ten years of its existence. The main purpose of this work is to elaborate further on the Institute's activities from the perspective of the so-called non-scholarly component of its staff. In the first theoretical part of this work, the theme of the structure and activities of the Institute is put into the context of time, with special attention to previous perspectives and problems of historiography as a scientific discipline; in this scope a general description of historiography as such is examined. Subsequent chapters characterize the methods of examination in the field of contemporary History in the U.S.A, France, Germany, Austria, Great Britain and Poland. It also gives a rough outline of changes in topical and geographical analysis as manifested in the attempt of specialisation in the above mentioned countries. In regards to the management of the Institute, the next chapter deals with the institutional structure of The Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. The methodological part of this work is focused on the clasification of the concept of a reaserch project including relevant expectations and objectives; it describes...
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Transformations in the behavior of football funs in the 1st and 2nd Czech leagues (Concentrating on developments from 2006)
Baran, Ondřej ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Diestler, Radek (referee)
Sport is one of the most important leisure activities in today's Euro-American civilisation. We are not talking here only of active engagement in sport, but also of sport as a source of mass-entertainment for millions of people. In this thesis I focus above all on the conduct of spectators in football stadiums in the Czech Republic. I will approach this theme by way of oral history, where the narrators providing me with interviews regularly go to matches in the First and Second Divisions of the Czech Football League. I concentrate here above all on the motivation and attitudes of the various groups of spectators to the events in the football stadiums, and I pick out three groups in particular: normal fans, ultras and hooligans. I endeavour to delineate the main differences between these groups which, in my view, are rooted not only in their varying motivation, but also in their modes of communication, as well as in their social composition and their age-structure. At the same time, however, I also attempt to highlight the specific environment of football terraces in which, though all the spectators may conduct themselves as individuals, they at one and the same time become, in a certain way, part of a mass of spectators, and they may therefore be in certain circumstances overcome by the situation...
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Termination of mining on the mine Schoeller/Nejedlý/Kladno in the eyes of miners
Rojková, Veronika ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
"Black Kladno" - a name inextricably linked with the largest city of the Central Bohemian clearly reflects the former industrial face of Kladno. In addition to the steel industry here had long tradition just coal mining and its phasing, which culminated early in 2002 close of the last Kladno Mine Schoeller / Nejedly / Kladno, had an impact on a large number of people who have worked in this field. In addition, mine closure linked solely with the decline of mining activities after 1991, but also with a methane explosion, which occurred at the mine in late 2001, and died with him four people. This thesis using qualitative research methods in the form of oral history interviews devoted to the completion of mining the bottom Schoeller / Nejedly / Kladno, as it was perceived by miners and other employees of the mine, compensate the loss of jobs often lasting many years, and their search for new employment. As the main source of information for the actual parts are used extensive publication Josefa Suldovského Chronicle mining Czech lands and collective work Coal mining in the Kladno: History Kladno- Slaný-Rakovník basin. For more information regarding mining directly Kladensko then a series of regional publications and printing. The work is divided into five parts. The introduction briefly summarizes...
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