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The Image of Partisan in Czechoslovak Society 1945-1948
Doležalová, Ivana ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šustrová, Radka (referee)
The bachelor thesis (work) The Image of Partisan in Czechoslovak Society 1945 - 1948 based on study of contemporary press shows the way the partisan movement was presented in Czechoslovak public space. The work introduces the development of the media image of partisan in the press during the early post-war years. It describes, when the type of guerrilla fighter as a representative of the antifascist resistance occured, who this presentation Czechslovak resistance advocated most, and if it was at the expense of other forms of resistance activities. The focus of the work is the analysis of main source of the problems of formating post-war media image of the partisan movement - weekly Partisan, in the years 1946, 1947 and early 1948. The qualitative analysis enabeled putting down the media image of partisan in weekly Partisan, its transformation through the time, and simultaneously the confrontation with some other post-war Czechoslovak periodicals. The contribution of this work is in the fact that it complements previous studies on the topic of the partisan movement of view of post-war contemporary press.
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GDR-Nostalgia in the Former East Germany and Politics of Memory of the PDS
Novosadová, Alena ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Šmidrkal, Václav (referee)
In 1990 when the GDR and FRG were united, there was a lot of optimism about the future of the new state. However, after few years after this historical event, both West and East Germans felt disillusioned by the transformation process. The sensation of the East Germans was named GDR-nostalgia or the so called Ostalgie, nostalgic longing for the former GDR. This feeling was rooted both in the objective socio-economic situation and in the feeling of loss in the biographies of the East Germans. This paper deals with the political dimension of the GDR-nostalgia, focusing on the political party PDS, a successor party of the communist state party SED. Despite the pessimistic prophecies about the PDS the party was growing steadily in the East. The East Germans felt that the party represents their particular interests in the united Germany. Yet the PDS didn't use a chance to deal critically with its controversial history. The hypothesis is, that the party, by presenting an idealistic version of the GDR past to the public and their potential voters, tried to strengthen the nostalgia feeling in order to gain votes. To prove the thesis the structure of the party, its program and history institutions will be examined. The concept of politics of memory will be described.
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Memory, narrative and politics
Reichelová, Tereza ; Slačálek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Barša, Pavel (referee)
In this paper I will analyze contemporary politics of memory on the basis of their temporal orientation face to face to the end of history. I will follow on the one hand theories of perception of time in regards of social dimension of an agent's identity of Henri Bergson and Jean-Paul Sartre applied on Pierre Nora's work, and on the other hand I will try to join those philosophical concepts with Ricouer's and MacIntyre's narrative approach. This theoretical base will subsequently allow me to elaborate on political temporality oriented to the sacred eternity, to the future or to the past and confront it with the hypothesis of the end of history as conceptualized by Francis Fukuyama. Politics of memory gains in this classification a peculiar status - being oriented either towards the past denying the end of history, or oriented towards diffused individualized future. The second type of politics of memory aims to heal society from history, still present in painful memory, and support establishing of post-historic reality. Paradoxically, I will argue, both types of politics of memory allow history in Fukuyma's sense to pass the threshold.
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