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A Slightly Different 1930s - A Perspective on the 1930s Crises through the Eyes of Czech Community in America, 1929-1939.
Durčák, Michael ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee)
Czech immigrants in America played an important role in the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia after World War I, and even today more than one million Americans claim Czech ancestry. Czech Americans understandably kept a close eye on the young democracy in the centre of Europe during the interwar period. Their reflection is recorded primarily within the regional periodicals, which, despite their partial availability, are still not sufficiently reflected within the historiography. In general, the most researched period is the "peak" period of the immigrants America around the First World War, but elsewhere there are large gaps, especially in the interwar period. In my thesis, I will attempt a comparative view of Czechs in America on the events of 1929 to 1939, with the outer points of my examination being the crash of the New York Stock Exchange in the fall of 1929 to the occupation of the remnants of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany and the declaration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939. I will focus specifically on Czech periodicals published in three locations - Chicago, Nebraska, and Texas. Comparing these three perspectives will yield a unique comparison of the perspective of Czech Americans across urban and rural areas in three different states across the United...
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Václav Klaus Seminars as a Part of the Late Socialist World of meaning
Durčák, Michael ; Spurný, Matěj (advisor) ; Sommer, Vítězslav (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to closely examine the world of thought in seminars organized by a branch of Československá vědecko-technická společnost Státní banky československé v Praze (Czechoslovak Scientific and Technical Society of State Bank in Prague) which were led by Václav Klaus in the years of 1979-1986. The members of the seminars were publishing their papers semiannually in collections named Ekonomické modelování (Economic Modeling). These consisted of written versions of presentations and in later years also of the polemics among the authors. The foreword to each collection was written by Václav Klaus himself. Over the years, the fame of the seminars and number of copies of Ekonomické modelování has began to rise, so the whole event received to the attention of StB in 1984. The Secret police then kept a file on Václav Klaus named Akce Kluk and in 1986 prevented Klaus from organising more seminars because of their right-wing orientation. The above-mentioned seminars have not yet been the point of interest in historiography, mainly due to the poor accessibility of the collections. The thesis will deal with the content of the seminars themselves captured in Ekonomické modelování and also with the monitoring of the meetings by the secret police. The result is a perspective on the unresearched...
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