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Daniel Sluníčko. From the life of Prague typographers
Koudelková, Kateřina ; Randák, Jan (referee) ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor)
The topic of this diploma thesis is Daniel Sluníčko, From the Life of Prague Typographers. Its target is to show Sluníčko's life on the background of the 19th century. Up to now, no work about this person has been written, Daniel Sluníčko is known only as a director of Eduard Grégr's printing-house. However, his life and activities were much more versatile. He was born in 1830 in Bohnice, a small village near Prague. During his apprenticeship as a typesetter in Prague he was a witness of the revolution in Prague in 1848 and he described it in his diary very well. After the revolution he went to Vienna and other towns of Austria monarchy to get some experience in his branch. It was very difficult in the beginning but after many ordeals, he was very successful. He worked in some printing-works after coming back to Prague and finally he became a director of a newly established firm of Julius Grégr and František Šimáček. There were many problems with money in this company, Julius Grégr was arrested and František Šimáček got off the company. Eduard Grégr, Julius' brother, became a new owner. Both brothers were in the leadership of the company together but after some time they parted. Sluníčko was a factotum of technical activities in the printing-house. During his directorship, he met many people out of the...
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Czechs in Vienna 1934-1945: persecution, collaboration and resistance of the minority
Kotalík, Matěj ; Randák, Jan (referee) ; Kvaček, Robert (advisor)
The thesis makes an analysis of the Czech ethnical minority in Vienna, its life under the authoritarian Dollfuss und Schuschnigg regime and under Hitler, this from several different points of view. Vienna's Czechs, once the biggest non-German national group of the Austrian capital, became an important entity in the 19th century as a consequence of an enormous imigration stream from the Czech Lands. After the First world war, their position and protection by Austrian authorities got legally anchored by the Versailles system, however, in reality, a considerable discrimination continued. The political development towards the so-called austro-fascism and the nazi occupation had also a tremendous impact on everyday life of Czechs as well as other minorities in Austria. From 1934 to 1938, mostly left-wing Czechs were persecuted, whereas the German invasion gave rise to a persecution of the minority as such. Exposed to an increasing pressure after the "Anschluss" in March 1938, Czechs in Vienna reacted in a double way. Their official representatives showed firstly a strengthened loyalty, especially concerning the plebiscite in April, and many Czechs made an effort towards assimilation, whereas many others took part in various resistance activities. The Czech resistance in Vienna and its outskirts arose as a...
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Ice hockey in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Kunert, Petr ; Gebhart, Jan (referee) ; Randák, Jan (advisor)
This thesis deals with ice hockey in the era of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It describes the role of sport during the Nazi occupation while approaching ice hockey from both sport and social point of view. Further to this, brief biographies of the most considerable players of the period concerned are provided. This thesis aspires to be a small contribution to the history of one of the most popular Czech sports.
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Jan Boris Spacek 1888-1967. Native of Stepanov in Russia, Bulgaria and the Near East
Turkovič, Alexander ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Randák, Jan (referee)
This bachelor work concentrates on the life, work, and political activities of Stepanov native Jan Spacek, who was a permanent revolutionary, rebel and crusader for dreams and ideals. This is a probe into the life of a man, who did not enter history as a grand personality of policy or warfare, but who in some ways influenced the great events of his time and was simultaneously transformed by them. The author trys to reveal his reasons for a positive attitude to revolution and half-hearted approach to his family. With the aid of many archived documents, the reasons for his thirty three years in Russia, Bulgaria and the Near East, and his real or ostensible intelligence activity for the Soviet Union, are investigated. Thanks to the collation of many archive sources (both personal and official) there are many different recollections by the people around him. These views differ by their relationship to him or ulterior motives.
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Social life in Humpolec in the first half of the 20th century
Krajíček, Jan ; Randák, Jan (referee) ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor)
This thesis deals with the city life and emphasizes it's changes during the time of The First Republic, Protectorate and the postwar period. In the thirty-year period it takes down various trends in the life of provincial town Humpolec, especially the changes of the life style and inspirations and cause of this changes. It deals also with the adoption of incoming social patterns in local society.
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Post-war development and daily life in Lidice (memories of Lidice residents of reverent memorials and the life in the village)
Literová, Gabriela ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Randák, Jan (referee)
POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT AND DAILY LIFE IN LIDICE (memories of Lidice residents of reverent memorials and a life in the village) Author deals with post-war development of Lidice since 1945 to 1989 with certain enjambment to years to come.Thesis tries to show, which way Lidice were exploited by communist regime to socialism propaganda and how it reflected in lives of Lidice residents. Author describes and assesses construction of new village together tied up with cooperating organizations, particularly Society for Lidice reconstruction a British movement Lidice Shall Live founded by Sir Barnett Stross. Author concetrates on Barnett Stross more closely concerning the fact author has contacted his family in Great Britain, where she has obtained memories on founder of new Lidice. Secondly, diplomate concentrates on life in new Lidice and perception of reverent memories and life of Lidice residents. Primarily, memories of narrators became main source base, which she has acquired and processed by oral history method. Diplomate replenished oral sources by literature studies and archive sources analysis (mainly from SOaK Kladno, Society for Lidice reconstruction fund, London National Archive and period press). Group of respondents were Lidice residents, who were lead to tell their biographical stories with extra...
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Places of memory and cultural heritage. On the example of Kutná Hora
Kovářová, Linda ; Randák, Jan (referee) ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor)
At the beginning of the research there was an interest in the monuments, above all in the monuments registered on the UNESCO's World Heritage List. In my thesis the monuments are perceived as places of memory. According to Pierre Nora places of memory are the places where the sources of our collective memory are grounded, concreted and expressed. The study of places of memory lies on the diffusion of two levels - the first states a certain tradition of memory, the other one describes them in the terms of historiographical documents. Therefore there is introduced also the matter of the monument preservation. As an example of examining the issues in field a strategy of designing a case study of a selected place of memory was chosen. A closer examination of the Czech town of Kutná Hora allows for a more detailed look at the processes through which the meaning attributed to World Heritage takes shape. A case study of Kutná Hora sheds light on the interpretation of World Heritage in the context of a small town and on the problem of the construction of the memory of the place. In 1995, Kutná Hora was picked for the World Heritage List, and thus by definition became a part of a heritage of "outstanding universal value and interest". In the nomination document the emphasis was especially put on the interpretation...
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Ritualization of death and dying in the Revolution of 1848: the cult of the dead
Randák, Jan ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Řepa, Milan (referee)
non-traditional view of the subject of the revolutionary year of 1848. While a vast majority of the existing research has been focused on the course of the revolution, particular political camps and leaders of the contemporary movement, I have put emphasis on a phenomenon seemingly concealed and disregarded. My attention was aimed on the dead, the victims of the events of this hectic period. Death as such has indeed been a traditional interest of historians, nevertheless, reception and reflection thereof in a political or rather a revolutionary context is a fairly less regarded subject. Therefore, I have laid out an indeed concrete topíc in my thesis - ritualisation of death and dying during the revolution of 1848. A simple question is apparent: why study this subject of the dead and victims in the Czech context when no major fights occured here and thus the number of fatalities was not extreme? After reading my thesis the answer com es up as obviously as the question does: despite a relatively low body count of the Pentecost events in June 1848, a cult of the dead and victims of the revolution 1848 is present in the course of the few restless months. The cult of the dead was a sophisticated means of using the victims to promote particular interests of both the reformatory and revolutionary camp as well as...
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Ritualization of death and dying in the Revolution of 1848: the cult of the dead
Randák, Jan ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Řepa, Milan (referee) ; Kořalka, Jiří (referee)
Looking apart from subsidiary topics, the presented thesis generally attempts to take a non-traditional view of the subject of the revolutionary year of 1848. While a vast majority of the existing research has been focused on the course of the revolution, particular political camps and leaders of the contemporary movement, I have put emphasis on a phenomenon seemingly concealed and disregarded. My attention was aimed on the dead, the victims of the events of this hectic period. Death as such has indeed been a traditional interest of historians, nevertheless, reception and reflection thereof in a political or rather a revolutionary context is a fairly less regarded subject. Therefore, I have laid out an indeed concrete topíc in my thesis - ritualisation of death and dying during the revolution of 1848. A simple question is apparent: why study this subject of the dead and victims in the Czech context when no major fights occured here and thus the number of fatalities was not extreme? After reading my thesis the answer com es up as obviously as the question does: despite a relatively low body count of the Pentecost events in June 1848, a cult of the dead and victims of the revolution 1848 is present in the course of the few restless months. The cult of the dead was a sophisticated means of using the victims to...
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