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The proposal of dark tourism development project
IŠOVÁ, Veronika
Thesis is concerned with the proposal of dark tourism development project. The proposed project locates in Znojmo region. Znojmo region has a considerable potential to develop varied forms of tourism, where falls within also dark tourism. Thesis purpose introduces two ways: First, the feasibility study realizes the potential in Znojmo region. Second, the feasibility study constructs the competent product, which contributes to region development. The product of project presents a nature trail "Tour behind the iron curtain" in National park Podyjí. Market analysis and demand analysis were implemented in the feasibility study. Financial analysis of the project and total costs effectiveness were interpreted in other period. Lastly all aspects of hazard were explored in the project including a total evaluation for investment grant.
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A tough job for Donald Duck: Hollywood, Czechoslovakia, and selling films behind the Iron Curtain, 1944-1951
Bláhová, Jindřiška ; Přádná, Stanislava (advisor)
Combining analyses of primary documents housed at American, Russian and Czech archives, and employing industrial analysis, market analysis, and analytical tools developed in reception studies, this thesis examines Hollywood's post-war operations in Eastern Europe, the strategies that were employed to advance them, and the responses of the indigenous film industries of Eastern Europe to them. While scholars examining Hollywood's post-war international activities have focused on western European markets, arguing that they were of supreme importance to Hollywood, this thesis shows that Eastern Europe was also central to Hollywood's post-war economic agenda. The major Hollywood studios, I argue, were, as early as 1944, drawing up highly ambitious plans to become the dominant player on Eastern European markets, including the Soviet market, and were working to prevent the Soviet film industry from expanding into Western Europe. Sitting at the border of East and West, the small country of Czechoslovakia played a key role in what this thesis calls Hollywood's Soviet Sphere Project. By revealing the extent to which expansion into Eastern Europe was central to Hollywood's short-, medium- and long-term economic objectives, this thesis offers new insight into Hollywood's domestic and international conduct during the...
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The Basic Characteristics of Migration Process in Europe from the the end of 1918 (in consideration of the Czech Republic)
TOMÍŠKOVÁ, Helena
My diploma thesis deals with trends of migration in Europe after 1918 with a particular regard to Czech Republic region. It consists of 5 chapters. The first chapter is aimed at the main definitions concerning migration. The second chapter deals with streams of migration in Europe between 1918 and 1945. The chapter is divided into several subchapters examining the situation between, during and after World War II in European and Czech region. The third chapter reflects the period of Cold War when the migration was of post-colonial or labour character or it was influenced by asylum requests. In addition, the chapter mentions the question of Czechoslovakia which was attached to the eastern communist block after World War II. The fourth chapter is aimed at the migration after 1989 which was defined mainly by the fall of Iron curtain. This event was accompanied by increasing number of eastern migrants and by fear of European Community connected with it. The ?European fortress? started to be built during this period and the main manifestation of this phenomenon was strong restriction outwards and liberation inside. Asylum policy was influenced by war conflicts in Yugoslavia in nineties. The last chapter deals with the Czech Republic after 1989 and it is divided into 3 subchapters ? period between 1989 and 2004, period after joining the European Union and general trends of Czech migration in the last years.
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Pasing The Iron Curtain via Prague - the first wave of refugees from the GDR in autumn 1989 in the West German embassy and the portrayal in the Czecho-slovakian press
Majerová, Kateřina ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Šmidrkal, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Passing The Iron Curtain via Prague - the first wave of refugees from the GDR in autumn 1989 in the West German embassy and the portrayal in the Czechoslovakian press" deals with the topic of refugees in the West German embassy in Prague in the year 1989. It focuses on the first of three refugee of refugees in the late summer and autumn 1989 which took place from August to September 1989. Concerning the first wave of refugees in August and September two aspects are being analysed in this bachelor thesis which influence the structure of this scientific paper. The first part deals with the role of representatives of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic during the first refugee wave and how they reacted to the events in the embassy. This part draws especially on documents from Czechoslovakian archives because the Czechoslovakian role in these events has been kept secret from the Federal Republic of Germany. The second part contains an analysis of how the selected Czechoslovakian daily papers (Rudé právo, Svobodné slovo, Lidová demokracie, Mladá fronta a Práce ) reported about the refugees in the West German embassy from August until the departure of the first special trains. Much emphasis was laid on showing how often, in which way and to what extent there were reports about these...
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Halt, hands up! Here is the border patrols. Who goes there?
POLÁK, Petr
The aim of my diploma paper is to approximate the period of the divided world in the area of Novohradské hory in South Bohemian region in the twentieth century. The paper is based on many unpublished archive materials, scientific literature and mainly on many interviews with the personal observers living in this area. At first, I try to capture general events at the Bohemian {--} Austrian state boundary from the eldest time to the present. Next chapters deals with the problems of locating border patrols, the lives of members of the Frontier police and the attendance of local people at security of the state boundary. Based on the unpublished materials, the paper introduces destinies of the detained people and the dead who tried to cross the state boundary illegaly. I would also like to mention the main illegal groups of the III. anticommunist revolt, which were operating in the Budweis region, and also the agents of foreign intelligence services. Generally, I try to capture destinies of not only direct victims of the Iron Curtain {--} who were in fact vulnerable runners, but also destinies of soldiers executing compulsory millitary services, who were unfortunatelly forced to execute their national duty {--} to protect the state boundaries of totalitarian regime.
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Land Cover Changes in connection with the Iron Curtain using Corine Land Cover Database
Najman, Jiří ; Romportl, Dušan (referee) ; Bičík, Ivan (advisor)
This master's thesis focuses on land use and land cover changes in relation to the Iron Curtain and its fall. The area of concern was delimited with a buffer zone of 15 km from the Iron Curtain (both sides). The space was created according to the administrative structure consistent with the year 1989. Different processes in the economy of the countries involved has had an undoubtedly significant influence on land cover and land use structure and its changes. Agronomic politics in European democratic states was more market oriented and that was mirrored in land use structures. On the other hand, soil in countries under soviet influence was cultivated on infertile grounds, which was untenable after 1990. The fall of the Warsaw Treaty stood for radical changes in the society of states that were directly influenced by the Soviet Union. Based on this fact we can presume more intensive land cover changes on the side of the former East in comparison with the Western countries. This expectation was confirmed using CORINE Land Cover dataset. The former East has undergone changes nearly five times more in comparison with the opposite side of the Iron Curtain boundary between 1990 and 2000. Essential variance was also remarkable amidst individual zones separated by administrative boundaries. The most stable...
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Cyprus in a new security environment
Matúš, Rudolf ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
Diploma thesis "Cyprus in a New Security Environment" deals with security perception in The Republic of Cyprus in the aftermath of the Cold War. It brings a closer look at the new security patterns that developed after the fall of the Iron curtain and introduces the typology of states in international relations, security sectors and the threats associated as well as referent objects of security in the post-Cold War setting. Cyprus, its history, current political and economic situation provides the basis of the study for categorization of Cyprus on the basis of Srensen's typology and Copenhagen school's view of security studies. Thesis classifies Cyprus as a specific example of country with outward features and security dilemma of the postmodern state. However it is rather difficult to categorize it in Srensen's typology of states because of unresolved dispute and its impact on Cyprus' security environment. Copenhagen school provides a framework for examination of Cyprus security environment in accordance with five security sectors (military, political, societal, economic, environmental) and the thesis finds the conclusion that island is threatened in each security sector portrayed. The Republic of Cyprus falls within each of these sectors mainly because of the unresolved dispute between the community of...
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Comparison of systems of investment incentives in Romania and Bulgaria
Zadražil, Marek ; Černá, Iveta (advisor) ; Taušer, Josef (referee)
Romania and Bulgaria in 2007 became the latest EU members. Both countries were predominantly agricultural oriented with little developed industry and service sector. One of the objectives which these Balkan states after the fall of the Iron Curtain have set was to get closer to the economic level of western countries. The main objectives of investment incentives in both countries are regional development, employment, labourforce, modernization and use of renewable energy sources. The aim of my work is analysis and comparison of investment climate, investment incentives and foreign direct investment in Romania and Bulgaria. In the first chapter I deal with general characteristics of investment incentives. In the second and third chapter I research particular state aid schemes in Romania and Bulgaria, investment climate and foreign direct investment, which I compare in the last chapter. Both countries differ in speed of the process of establishment and registration of companies, taxes and state aid systems.
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Concept of School Geography in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
Vrhel, Matěj ; Hanus, Martin (referee) ; Řezníčková, Dana (advisor)
- This work deals with changes of education systems' concepts (with a special emphasis on teaching geography) in post communist states of Central Europe. Monitored states are Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. We follow the changes of concepts within the period of the fall of iron curtain till today, the main trigger of changes are curricular reforms. The obligatory curricular documents of these states became a subject of content analysis. We describe how the documents had been created and how they were introduced into everyday life. Another aspect of this work is the analysis and comparison of school systems of the individual lands. The mentioned analyses represent a wider framework for fulfiling the main aim of this thesis. Thus for the analysis of the concept and character of geography as a subject of general education in the process of general education in monitored lands. The concept and character of school geography are analysed starting with the period of last decades of totalitarian regimes and going through post-totalitarian curricular reforms untill today. The content analysis follows the inclusion of school geography into learning areas of curricular documents, the main educational aims and the content design of thematic plans. A further, respectively quantitation aspect is the number of...
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