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Travelers between the Czechoslovakia and the Great Britain in the years 1945-1948
Kučera, Jaroslav ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Wohlmuth, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the postwar travelers between Czechoslovakia and Great Britain in 1945 - 1948 and it is thematiclly divided into three chapters. The first part focuses on the impacts of the war on European countries and mainly on Czechoslovakia, Breat Britain and Germany. It mainly emphasizes the state of transport infrastructure, which has played a key role in bringing people back home. An important part of these returns was also the sophisticated plan that the Czechoslovak government in exile created. The second part examines the development of Czechoslovak - British relations as well as the work of diplomatic and cultural institutions which played a key role in providing foreign internships and foreign study programs. Through study programs, many students and researchers could visit Great Britain. The work of Czechoslovak exiles and their influence on the British public is also taken into account in this work. The final part examines the travel conditions in post - war Europe. It tries to examine these travel conditions from historical sources and mainly the written and audiovisual memories of the witnesses. The emphasis here is on the description of repatriation from the United Kingdom and on the restoration of civilian transport routes, which have recovered quite quickly after 1945.
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Reflection of police work from the point of view of policemen and policewomen
Kapr, Ondřej ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Wohlmuth, Petr (referee)
This thesis follows up with reflection of police work, from the point of view policeman and policewoman themselves, in the historical context of the operation of the Police of the Czech Republic from 1991 until present. The foundation of all of this work is orally historical research from present and former police officers. The goal of this work is to apprise public with perception of police surrounding from inside, right from regular police officers. In this thesis are analysed and evaluated discovered connections. Key words: Police, Police of the Czech republic, oral history, history, police culture
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The former military area Ralsko
Janků, Dagmar ; Wohlmuth, Petr (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the topic of the Soviet army arrival and its impact on the everydayness of residents living in VÚ Ralsko. Using the method of oral history interviews records and its analysis the author concludes. With the help the metod record oral history interviews and analyzing them using symbolic antropology the author draws the conclusion that the presence of the Soviet army had an impact on the everydayness at severeal points. After the arrival of the Soviet military divisions, CSLA soldiers and their families had to leave their homes. They did not loose just their homes but also friends and jobs. The question of safety is a contentious subject. E.g. Even today, the ordinary residents of VÚ Ralsko speculate on the presence of nuclear weapons. Other issues were travel abroad and or mushrooming in VVP. The cohabitation of the Soviets and the ordinary residents was problematic and it took place on two locations - Housing estate Letná a Hradčany. The more relaxed place was Hradčany. The Soviet soldiers did not have a solid military morale and could make life unpleasant to the residents of Ralsko. On the other hand, on the basis of their presence, the residents were given the opportunity to supply a diverse assortment. Even so, there were conflicts in stores where wives of officers...
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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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Blood, honour and horror. Representations of siege warfare in siege journals of British defenders of Bergen-op-zoom in 1747.
Wohlmuth, Petr ; Storchová, Lucie (advisor) ; Schreiberová, Zuzana (referee)
This Master's degree thesis, named Blood, honour and horror. Representations of siege warfare in journals of British defenders of Bergen-op-zoom in 1747, adheres at specific genre of historical anthropology of war and military. It poses questions regarding ana-lysis of contemporary culture of war and its individual variables, their interdependence and changing configuration during the siege of Bergen-op-zoom in 1747, during culmination point of War of Austrian Succession. Meaning of this text consists of an effort to discover alternative way of treating historical sources and to depart traditional conservative methods of analyzing the war conflict using national or confessional military stereotypes, essential features of key actors or theoretical normative of military science. The text comes to conclusion that most irregular and dramatic character of the siege of Bergen-op-zoom was primarily caused by profound misunderstanding between defenders and attackers regarding culture of war, especially acceptable definition of military honour and of legitimate combat techniques. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Czech Military Veterans and their Reflections of Mission in Afghanistan.
Stehlík, Pavel ; Hlaváček, Jiří (advisor) ; Wohlmuth, Petr (referee)
The goal of this work is to record and reflect private memories of modern Czech war veterans from the Afghanistan mission as well as to write an integrated text about a topic which has not been interpreted yet. The core of the matter is focused on situations which happened in Afghanistan, what the narrators experienced, faced or felt and what they cope with. I am dealing with these topics: preparation for mission, choice of people, leave-taking, the first moments in mission, war essence, enemy image, interpersonal relations, intimate life, financial estimation, mascots and comeback. I tried to catch their unusually common lives of army professionals and their operations in an abroad mission (lapped from leaving till returning life phase). The primary source of the diploma work is based on interviews lead by a method of oral history with modern Czech war veterans from mission in Afghanistan. The text also props upon available memoir literature of fact, study, researches, magazines, diary, Internet articles and filmography. During the reflection of mission memories of Afghanistan, the observed plane is as historical - political as military. The main benefit of this work is setting the imaginary bases for the further similarly oriented researches in the area of new age military historiography and...
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Significance of bastioned fortifications to developmental process of military revolution
Wohlmuth, Petr ; Horský, Jan (advisor) ; Matlas, Pavel (referee)
English Abstract This Master Degree (Mgr.) thesis, takes up the topic of so called Military Revolution theory debate, focusing on historical and social developmental process, unfolding in the Early modern Europe. Military revolution is conceptualised as a source of far reaching societal change, having a civilisational dimension, contributing to overall weberian rationalisation process, happening in the Occident. In this text, military revolution is theoretically approached as a non-substantional developmental process and its structure and dynamics are analyzed using customized version of actor-network-theory of Bruno Latour. In this attempt, usual assumptions of natural ontological continuity, totality and developmental character of social realm are critically suppressed. Theoretical outcome of this thesis, based upon historical evidences, confirms, that even using this profoundly critical approach, military revolution possesses a distinctive quality of a developmental process and it can serve as a strong cognitive instrument of social sciences for researching Early modernity in Europe. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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