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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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The Odry region after World War II in life stories of its inhabitants
Kučerová, Lucie ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Kreisslová, Sandra (referee)
This Master's diploma thesis elaborates on the history of Odry region, particularly the period after World War II, when it underwent a significant transformation. The goal od the thesis is to do a thorough micro-historical research of the postwar history of the region with respect to the transformation of the formerly German areas into the reclaimed lands of the Czech nation. It is divided into several chapters. In the first chapter I evaluate the source base to the topic; I investigate various literature related to the transfer of the Germans and the frontier settlement (its regional provenance being taken into account), archival sources and narratives - memories of displaced Germans from the presently analyzed region and several examples of the recorded oral-history interviews. In other six chapters I elucidate the situation of the Odry region in particular periods: in 1938, during World War II, and in the era of the liberation, followed by the transfer of the German population and the process of a new habitation. The last chapter then discusses the postwar Odry region as a home both lost and obtained. The paper provides insight into the postwar transformation of the Odry region in the period after the World War II perusing primarily the memories of those who were directly involved. Key words the...
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Cultural Associations in Vlašim after 1945
Sedláčková, Lenka ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Franc, Martin (referee)
The main body of this work concerns cultural as in Vlašim after the second world war from 1945 to 1989. There are four specific groups that can be categorized as cultural associations; a nature group Mr. Vlasak group, Blaník Vlašim Choir and an amateur theatre group and friends of fine arts Vlašim. The first three clubs date comfortably within our choose era and they are important to deepen our knowledge of cultural societies of that time. To understand the history of these various cultural societies in Vlašim, it is necessary to broader our perspective. When we see these cultural groups in the context of the development of federal activities, we can see how the town was guided in its development. The majority of the research has been done using archival material from Museum Podblanicka, the Prague Regional Archive and also the Benešov State Archive. Added to this were other written historical accounts of the time as well as interviews conducted with knowledgable first hand sources. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Children and the War: the Year 1945 in the Memories of the Contemporaries from Beroun and Pilsen Regions
Slomková, Veronika ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Franc, Martin (referee)
The thesis called Children and the War: the Year 1945 in the Memories of the Contemporaries from Beroun and Pilsen Regions is focused on a crucial period of the Czechoslovakian history. It observes everyday life of "common people" during the Protectorate and it places emphasis mainly on the final stage of the war (e.g. Czech territory bombing by Ally air forces or Soviet and American soldiers coming). Currently recorded memories of the contemporaries are analysed and set into the wider historical context. Six respondents from Beroun and Pilsen regions spent the Protectorate years and the end of the war during their childhood, which was continuously disrupted by the Protectorate condition reality. These children had to act as adult people in especially tense situations (during air raid warning etc). In spite of the fact that their memories are related to the period of time seventy years ago, they are an important contribution to the never ending completing of a historiographical image of that time. We must take into consideration the fact that these memories were influenced by various factors such as propaganda, film or literature of course. An oral history fulfils its irreplaceable function in this situation: we are getting closer to the time, when it is not possible to record the personal memories...
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