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Gustav Habrman: social democrat on the way from "anarchism" to "revisionism"
Šlehofer, Lukáš ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Rákosník, Jakub (referee)
The main aim of this graduation thesis is to describe life of an important Czech social democratic politician Gustav Habrman. A special attention is paid to his ideological development. He was born in Česká Třebová in 1864. His family was very poor. When Habrman was served out, he moved to Vienna, because he did not get the opportunity to find a work in his native city. In the capital city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire he took up with ideas of workers' movement. He also became a member of this movement and participated in its activities. One part of these activities was illegal. When the secret police found illegal printing plant, he was arrested and later sentenced to four-year jail. After his return from the prison Habrman decided to move to Paris. In this city he lived more than one year. Then he had to leave it because he suffered from a serious illness: when prisoned in Austria, he was infected with tuberculosis. He moved to the USA to New York and there he worked as a turner. He wanted to return back to Europe but during his stay in Bohemia in 1892 he was under sight of the Austrian Police and therefore he moved back to America. There he worked in Czech compatriotic workers' newspapers. A very important event during his second stay in America was his attempt to help Cuba fighters for freedom. In 1897...

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