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Rozvadov: Post-revolutionary Transformation of a Border Municipality through the Eyes of its Inhabitants
Skálová, Eva ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
The development of the border municipality Rozvadov since 1948 and its consecutive transformation after the year 1989 entailed two significant antipodes regarding the existence of the municipality as well as the lives of its inhabitants. In this master thesis, I tried the to capture the lifetime of the municipality before 1989 and its relatively substantial transformation in the era after the Velvet Revolution. This transformation is still under way. I use the oral history interviews with 17 vernacular narrators as a primary source. In the first part of the thesis, I observe the after-war resettlement of the researched area, the organizing of the border security policy and also the life in the direct vicinity of the "Iron Curtain" as it was perceived by the inhabitants. The second part of the thesis is first of all focused on the social transformation of the municipality and the concomitent effects following the change of the political regime. The aim of the thesis is to determine the most problematic aspects of the transformation of the Rozvadov municipality after 1989 from the perspective of the local inhabitants (but not exclusively). The main emphasis is put on the fact how these concomitent effects - the development of the sexual industry, Asian Markets or the construction of the casino - have...
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Political Prisoners of Jáchymov. Oral History in Theory and Practice
Bouška, Tomáš ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
The aim of this doctoral thesis combines the possibilities of oral history in theory and practice. The first part prepares the field for delivering results of my research which is targeted at mapping and understanding recent history using oral histories of twelve survivors of communist régime imprisoned in the 1950s in the Jachymov district. At first, I demonstrate the usage of oral history and related thinking about it abroad and in the Czech context. I deliver the empirical material of this work using this method. It consists from life stories and personal testimonies of former political prisoners who have been organised in the Confederation of Political Prisoners after 1989 in the Czech Republic. Apart from methodological collection, analysis and interpretation of their life stories I point at further processing and introduction of such a research to the wide and expert public. I believe in the premise that personal testimonies of narrators represent a contribution to understanding "small history and its human aspect - here dealing with the Czechoslovak political persecution in 1950s. I also describe the evolution of my research project which I managed to enlarge and link to other academic work of my PhD. colleagues. Like this I hope to give birth to a (hopefully) unique multidisciplinary project which...
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Political prisoners of Jáchymov. Oral history in theory and practice
Bouška, Tomáš ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
The aim of this doctoral thesis combines the possibilities of oral history in theory and practice. The first part prepares the field for delivering results of my research which is targeted at mapping and understanding recent history using oral histories of twelve survivors of communist régime imprisoned in the 1950s in the Jachymov district. At first, I demonstrate the usage of oral history and related thinking about it abroad and in the Czech context. I deliver the empirical material of this work using this method. It consists from life stories and personal testimonies of former political prisoners who have been organised in the Confederation of Political Prisoners after 1989 in the Czech Republic. Apart from methodological collection, analysis and interpretation of their life stories I point at further processing and introduction of such a research to the wide and expert public. I believe in the premise that personal testimonies of narrators represent a contribution to understanding "small history and its human aspect - here dealing with the Czechoslovak political persecution in 1950s. I also describe the evolution of my research project which I managed to enlarge and link to other academic work of my PhD. colleagues. Like this I hope to give birth to a (hopefully) unique multidisciplinary project which...
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Folk As a Social Phenomenon in the Time of So Called Normalization
Houda, Přemysl ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
Summary: The thesis "Folk As a Social Phenomenon in the Time of So Called Normalization" does not take folk primarily for a music style but it intends to demonstrate its limits the Communist power in Czechoslovakia had set for independent cultural activities in 1970s and 1980s. That is why the thesis is not a musicological one but a political and historic one. The text is based on a wide basis of sources: studies in archives, the analysis of valid legislation of that time, studies of contemporary press, interviewing the contemporary witnesses and using the witnesses' private archives and last but not least the lyrics of the songs themselves have been selected as important sources The text focuses on important milestones having the information value about the folk in 1970s and 1980s. There is provided an analysis of qualification tests which should have "cleansed" the official stages from "defective" musicians (and from a lot of folk singers as well). The demonstration of possibilities is given here showing the fact the folk could survive and balance on the edge of the public life in spite of all legislation barriers and this either in the form of circumventing the law and using the gaps in the law (folk singers' union Šafrán (Saffron)) or in the form of "hacking" the system, i.e. gaining influence in an...
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Forgotten Generation. Independent Activities and Samizdat in the Pilsen Region in the 80ies of the 20th Century.
Petrová, Jana ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
The degree work deals with the last century period of the 80s and 90s in the Pilsen region. Generally, it was time of lack of freedom and intolerance when all the state power was concentrated in one political party - the Czechoslovak Communist Party. With support of police this party manipulated with citizens' dignity, rights and thinking. Through description of some civic activities the work records groups of independent thinking in the Pilsen region. These activities were source of independent atmosphere; that's why they were supervised by the state power; their protagonists were monitored and their activities were supressed. In the work the independent areas are divided into chapters: church, music, scouting, camping, ecology. Another chapter focuses on the local dissent activities. Its members were predominantly from the above mentioned groups. Last chapter deals with unofficial publishing (samizdat) in this period. The aim of the degree work is to find (or at least to outline) the starting points and reasons that finally brought members of various groups (often diametrically opposite) together on the way of independent activities, dissent and unofficial publishing (samizdat).
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Censorship of broadcasting - Czechoslovak broadcasting in the 1950s and 1960s
Šenkýřová, Markéta ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
Synopsis The aim of this diploma paper is to explain and demonstrate censorial practice of the communist regime in the Czechoslovak Radio. The paper demonstrates via narrators' memories the way the transmission in the Czechoslovak Radio was affected after its takeover by the Communist Party in 1948, namely on the part of both the operational technical staff members and editors. Historical experience of narrators is presented in the context of formerly known events amended by published articles or sources including those of radio archive.
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Theory and practices of the system of regional self-government in the Czech Republic - the South Moravian region (a case study)
Caletka, Stanislav ; Bureš, Jan (advisor) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
My graduation thesis deals with the theory and practices of regional self- government units in the Czech Republic. It analyses its functions as they were drawn up at the turn of millennium. The graduation thesis consists of two parts. The first theoretical part deals with the function of regional self-government units in general. After a brief description of the history of these units on the Czech territory - with focus on discussions on the establishment of higher self-governmental units in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic after 1993 - a theoretical framework of the regional self-government units is described in the chapters and sub-chapters. I discuss the problems of functions and competences of regional bodies (the Regional Assembly, the Regional Committee, the President and the Regional Services) and relations among them. The information resources of the first part were especially the Law No 129/2000 Coll. on regional self-government units and a number of scientific publications of legal and political science literature. In addition, there are discussed tasks of regional elections according to the Law No 130/2000 Coll. on elections to the regional assemblies and in respect of results of regional elections in 2000 and 2004. Currently, the chapter focused on regional...
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Songsters' association Šafrán
Houda, Přemysl ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
Hudba, jakožto významný prvek, jenž může ovlivňovat společenské mínění, se vždy musí potýkat se zájmem mocenských orgánů v jakémkoli autoritativním či totalitním státě. Touha svobodně tvořit a stvořené poté reprodukovat před posluchači, je totiž v naprosto příkrém protikladu s požadavky státu po všeobjímající kontrole jakékoli do veřejnosti zasahující sféry. Z této principiální neshody se nutně s hudbou dostává do příkrého konfliktu, jehož logickým vyústěním je pokus o její znásilnění a spoutání. Výsledek je jasný. Ovládnutí všech masmédií totalitním režimem a únik té, v pravém slova smyslu nejpůvodnější a z hlouby duše vyvěrající, hudby na samý okraj, do neoficiálních struktur. Ty skýtají jedinou možnost ji i nadále, bez kompromisů smočí, provozovat. Předestřený vývoj lze demonstrovat na historii písničkářského sdružení Šafrán. Volné sdružení písničkářů Šafrán existovalo v sedmdesátých letech, tedy v době, kdy se již plně prosadil tzv. normalizační kurz nového vedení KSČ. Byl to kurz vedoucí k opětovnému podrobení si veřejného dění Komunistickou stranou Československa po určitých záblescích uvolnění z konce let šedesátých. Společnost si ve své většině nechala vnutit a nakonec si i osvojila tzv. společenskou smlouvu, ve které vyměnila svá práva občanská za určitý stupeň státem garantovaného blahobytu.1...
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Songster's association Šafrán
Houda, Přemysl ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
Hudba, jakožto významný prvek, jenž může ovlivňovat společenské mínění, se vždy musí potýkat se zájmem mocenských orgánů v jakémkoli autoritativním či totalitním státě. Touha svobodně tvořit a stvořené poté reprodukovat před posluchači, je totiž v naprosto příkrém protikladu s požadavky státu po všeobjímající kontrole jakékoli do veřejnosti zasahující sféry. Z této principiální neshody se nutně s hudbou dostává do příkrého konfliktu, jehož logickým vyústěním je pokus o její znásilnění a spoutání. Výsledek je jasný. Ovládnutí všech masmédií totalitním režimem a únik té, v pravém slova smyslu nejpůvodnější a z hlouby duše vyvěrající, hudby na samý okraj, do neoficiálních struktur. Ty skýtají jedinou možnost ji i nadále, bez kompromisů s mocí, provozovat. Předestřený vývoj lze demonstrovat na historii písničkářského sdružení Šafrán. Volné sdružení písničkářů Šafrán existovalo v sedmdesátých letech, tedy v době, kdy se již plně prosadil tzv. normalizační kurz nového vedení KSČ. Byl to kurz vedoucí k opětovnému podrobení si veřejného dění Komunistickou stranou Československa po určitých záblescích uvolnění z konce let šedesátých. Společnost si ve své většině nechala vnutit a nakonec si i osvojila tzv. společenskou smlouvu, ve které vyměnila svá práva občanská za určitý stupeň státem garantovaného blahobytu.1...
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