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Cultural acts of extremism in the Czech Republic
Ptáček, Aleš ; Soukup, Václav (referee) ; Matějů, Martin (advisor)
This diploma thesis provides an analysis of cultural manifestations ofvarious extremist movements in the Czech Republic. Given the definition of extremism, cultural manifestations analyzed in this thesis belong exclusively to the so called political extremism. Even though, there are other instance s of radical extremist thought in The Czech Republic, such as ecological or religious extremism, corresponding movements do not comply with the definition of extremism as a tendency to replace the democratic political system with a totalitarian one. This thus focuses on right and left-wing extremist movements operating in the Czech Republic and also brietly reports on the foreign extremist scene solely as a source of inspiration for local movements. Individual movements are analyzed by their significant cultural manifestations, i.e. their image, dress-code, music, literature, art and design, symbols and by their presence in modem media and the internet. The introduction gives an explanation of the definition of extremism a basic introduction into the Czech extremist scene. Extremist movements are then further analyzed by their cultural manifestations and by their inclination towards right-wing or left-wing extremism. Each section includes a chapter dealing with the inf1uence of cultural manifestations of...
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