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The emergence and development of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia in the 20.years 20.century.
Adamcová, Marie ; Stracený, Josef (advisor) ; Hauser, Michael (referee)
The thesis deals with the emergence of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and its development in the 1920s. The first part is devoted to the historical roots of the socialist movement in Austria-Hungary and the Czech lands and maps the birth of the Communist Party from the left wing of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on the policy and internal development of the Communist Party in the 1920s in connection with its relationship to the Communist International. It also describes the most important events that influenced the party, individual congresses of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, their conclusions and in the context there is explained the strategic-tactical direction of the party. The thesis also monitors the development of communist agitation before the parliamentary elections of 1925 and 1929 and the results of these elections. The work uses specialized literature, protocols of individual congresses of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and articles from the period press. KEYWORDS Czechoslovakia, political party, communism, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, bolshevization
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Soldier, member of International Brigades and politician Bohuslav Laštovička (1905 - 1981) and his footprint in Czechoslovak history of the 20th century
Majtenyi, David ; Dobeš, Jan (advisor) ; Baletka, Tomáš (referee)
(in English) In my thesis, I have decided to continue the theme I have already pursued in my previous bachelor's degree research. It consists of biographies of selected outstanding volunteers who took part in the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939, with a special attention given to their lives after 1948. Following the life story of Osvald Závodský, I have chosen to focus on the life of Bohuslav Laštovička (1905-1981), a former officer of the Army of the First Czechoslovak Republic, and later a Communist journalist and publicist. In Spain, he served as the first commander of the "Gottwald" anti-aircraft division, then he was a member of the leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party in London. Following the liberation, he worked as the first director of Czechoslovak Radio. In 1948, he was an ambassador in Moscow, and later a deputy at the Ministry of Defence. After political restrictions during the political trials era, he became a chairman of the National Assembly in the mid-1960s, and remained in this post until 1968. As a member of the Federal Assembly he served until his dead in 1981. I intend to fill this biographical lacuna drawing on archival research, secondary literature, public press of the period, and last but not least memories of Laštovička's comrades-in-arms and his own, in order to...
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Institutional Changes of the CPC's Central Commitee Organs in the Period of 1951 to 1953
Slanina, Daniel ; Štefek, Martin (advisor) ; Drahokoupil, Štěpán (referee)
The objective of this work is to introduce institutional changes of the organs of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist party in the years from 1951 to 1953 and to do that with the help of secondary literature related to this topic and studying documents from the archive. The work will begin with a short historical contextualization and a part regarding the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist party will follow subsequently. After this input the attention will be concentrated on the institutional changes of the organs of the Central Committee which will be described in the context of domestic events and events that occurred in the Eastern bloc. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Czechoslovakia in the years 1948-1989: How did the ruling party use the language of the formation of the "favorable" reality?
Kološová, Štěpánka ; Váňa, Tomáš (advisor) ; Skalecká, Veronika (referee)
Submitted thesis deals with the question of how was the ruling party was using the language of "favorable" view of reality on the example of the introduction of monetary reform and the cancellation of the ticket system in the year1953. Using the critical discourse analysis of James Paul Gee it examines the twelve selected articles in the journals Rudé právo and Pravda in the period of one week before and two weeks after the introduction of monetary reform. The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to capture how did the Communist Party try to manipulate and influence the attitude of the citizens of Czechoslovakia to monetary reform through the media. The main contribution of this thesis should be a preview of functioning of the media in totalitarian Czechoslovakia and a display of the Communist regime's efforts to influence the media construct reality.
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What preceded the Prague Spring? Diversification in the Communist Party between 1954-1968.
Škvarkovská, Tatiana ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is development on the field of Czechoslovak political scene, especially in Communist Party of Czechoslovakia between years 1953-1969. One of the main characteristics of this period is partial easing of policy, which led political groups and movements, which were interested in cooperation with the main party, to form and represent themselves.The main focus of this thesis falls on the biggest and the most significant groups, which could be regarded to as the opposition, but also on the groups formed directly in the Communist Party, which had actual influence on policy making. The thesis is divided into 6 main chapters. It focuses on ideology of the party, its formation and power acquiring in the beginning. Next chapters are about changes in 1953 and the following period, because the year itself was a great milestone in the communist era not only in Czechoslovakia but also in other countries of USSR. Next chapters main focus is on mostly political groups not only in the Communist Party. The summary of the researched events is in the end of the thesis.
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Church politics of the Communist Party and the State in the North-eastern Bohemia during 1945-1960
Kafka, Jan ; Kubín, Petr (advisor) ; Šmíd, Marek (referee) ; Cuhra, Jaroslav (referee)
Jan Kafka: Religious Policy of the Communist Party and the State in North-East Bohemia in years 1948-1960 Zkrácená anotace v anglickém jazyce The presented thesis surveys the development and forms of religious policy of the state in the region of North-East Bohemia. The study analyzes the role of the individual state institutions and security forces, in particular it pays attention to the role of the Church Departments at the National Committees (i.e. the Secretaires of Church Affairs). The thesis also examines the response of individual churches to the state policy and describes the strategies and positions held by church leaders (eg. catholic bishop Mořic Pícha), priests, monks and nuns. We also study the influence of government policy on relations among individual churches.
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The problems of theft/pilferage/misappropriation and related pathologies in the perestroika period (1986-1989) in the Rudé právo
Bruna, Jaroslav ; Vilímek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
(thefts of socialist property) This diploma thesis observes how the problems of thefts of socialist property in Czechoslovakia were presented in the Rudé právo, the press body of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, between 1986 and 1989, or which discrepancies appeared in this presentation. The view on thefts of socialist property in the terms of law comes before the real core of the thesis - by putting stress on the definition of the socialist property in the Constitution, the given criminal act in the Penal Code, the view of the juristic literature on the social dangerousness of the given action, here represented by the Socialistická zákonnost journal. Afterwards the author focuses on how the problems of thefts (but also that of protection) of socialist property were related to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (or rather to its officials), top managers and rank and file employees, which he illustrates on particular cases. In the end the author compares the articles of the Rudé právo with some empirical findings - in relation to the survey of the Institute for public opinion poll by the Federal statistical office about the discipline and the check on the workplace, in relation to the statistics about the economic criminal activity mentioned in the German written...
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Hegemony struggle according to KSČ
Bruna, Jaroslav ; Vilímek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
(in English) The author tries to describe the transformation of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in relation to itself and the surrounding environment, especially in the period from 17th November to 21st December 1989. He will use primarily the articles from Rudé právo and a stenographic record of the unscheduled session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia on 24th and 26th November 1989 which was published under the name Poslední hurá. He considers it appropriate to put into context the events of November and December 1989, with political development in Czechoslovakia in January, at the turn of June and July, and in October 1989. This analysis attempt will be based on the principles of general linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. The combination of hegemonic analysis and deconstruction will be used as a method of workflow. When analyzing the transformation of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the author attempts to rely primarily on three principles deriving from discourse theory. The identity is not a fixed essence but it is created in the political struggles of the content of specific concepts. There have been attempts to fully fixate the identity of individuals, groups, society. But the identity is...
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Constitutional development and the political system of Czechoslovakia after February 1948
Trnka, Michal ; Kocian, Jiří (advisor) ; Polášek, Martin (referee)
This work focuses on constitutional and political development in Czechoslovakia after the coup d'état in February 1948 that performed the Communist Party to gain absolute power. The author examines the nature of the political system immediately after the coup, and the differences between constitutional law and contemporary reality. The author assumes that some establishment not only the constitution but also other laws was just a front for illegal consolidation of a totalitarian regime. First, the work focuses to the period before February 1948, and the aspects that led to the coup, as well as the development of a new constitution, which were not completed before the coup. Second, the February events itself are analyzed with an emphasis on the extent to which took place in accordance with the constitutional order. The period after 1948, when there were illegal consolidation of power by the Communist Party, political purges and radical transformation of society, is analyzed in the following chapters. The author concludes that the future direction of Czechoslovakia was decided soon after the 1945 communist infiltration of the security forces. They also played an important role in the coup itself. While the Communist Party argued that the act of resignation of ministers and complement government was...
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