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The Paasikivi's "Horrible Years" 1944-1948: J. K. Paasikivi and a threat of sovietization of Finland
Volák, Jiří ; Švec, Luboš (advisor) ; Skálová, Barbora (referee)
The Paasikivi's "Horrible Years" 1944-1948 Jiří Volák Abstract Finland did not become a Soviet satellite after the World War II, despite that many preconditions were in favor of such development. The country was defeated and, as stated in the Moscow Armistice of 1944, obliged to cede its territories and to pay severe war indemnities to the Soviet Union. Firstly, the thesis approaches domestic roots which led to this absolutely unique international position of Finland during the early Cold War years. The main goal is to map a role that Finnish Prime Minister and later President Juho Kusti Paasikivi had in securing and maintaining the surprising "Finnish path." Of what ideology he profited? Could he be compared to President Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia? Both primary and secondary sources are being used. According to the conclusions, Paasikivi was highly responsible for preservation of the Finnish democracy. Secondly, the significance of a Czechoslovak coup d'état is not omitted. Fear of a similar fate had a great influence on the Finnish society in the year 1948, while Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance between Finland and Soviet Union (YYA-sopimus) was negotiated. The result created a legal base of Finno- Soviet relation for forty years to come and the "Years of Danger", as Finnish...
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Austrian business cycle theory and its application to the Great Depression
Svatek, Jakub ; Dočkal, Dalibor (advisor) ; Loužek, Marek (referee)
This thesis deals with the Austrian business cycle theory. At the beginning it introduce methodology of the Austrian School. It also describes the Austrian structures of the capital and production based on time preference, which are necessary to understand this whole theory. One of goals is to show the possible causes of the business cycle, which the Austrian economists see in the monetary expansion. This causes a reduction in interest rates, disorientation of investors and the spread of investment demand. Furthermore, the task is to verify the viability of this theory in practice, applications to the Great Depression in the U.S.. Here this thesis analyzes the anti-crisis measures of the government of presidents Hoover and Roosevelt. Results are compared with the assumptions of Austrian theory and based on this comparison it draws conclusions.
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The important figures of the French philology of Brno from the beginning up to now
KOUŘILOVÁ, Iva
This bachelor thesis deals with important persons of French philology of Brno from the beginning up to now and especially with one particular person - Otakar Novák. The work is divided into two parts. The first part describes the life and work of Otakar Novák before he started to work as a teacher at the university in Brno. The second part then describes his life and work since the beginning of his work in Brno until his death. Otakar Novák was born on 28 December 1905 in Vienna. He studied Czech and French language and literature at the university in Brno. Since 1946 he worked as an assistant at Charles University in Prague. In 1952 he was moved to Brno, where he worked until the end of his career. Besides being great teacher, he was lecturer at many conferences in Czechoslovakia and abroad, he has published seven books and dozens of articles, reports and reviews of French literature in particular and many forewords and afterwords to classics works of French literature. In 1969 he was elected chairman of the Circle of modern philologists and in 1964 was appointed professor of history of French literature. Otakar Novák was at the time the central figure of Romance studies of Brno and decisively contributed to its development in the area of French literary history, and helped her maintain an internationally comparable level.
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Financial crisis in the United States of America and chosen anti-crisis measures
Ágošton, Peter ; Půlpánová, Stanislava (advisor) ; Matejašák, Milan (referee)
The aim of bachelor thesis "Financial crisis in the United States of America and chosen anti-crisis measures" is to describe more in details causes which led in 2007 and 2008 to the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. In thesis there are also described solutions in the form of measures of U.S. goverment, central bank and other institutions which were realized during years 2008 and 2009. The thesis is devided into three main chapters. The first chapter deals with the definition of financial crisis. The second chapter describes the main causes which led to financial crisis. The third chapter analyzes chosen anti-crisis measures in the point of efficiency.
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Liability of an employer for damage
Valná, Zuzana ; Štefko, Martin (advisor) ; Hůrka, Petr (referee)
Resume This diploma work is geared to one of the distinguish part of the Employment law - The employer's liability for damage and its comparison with representative countries of European Union. At first place I've chosen for comparison the representative of anglo-american law system - Great Britain. Another state that I've selected for detailed matching is Slovakia which law system is based on the mutual basis of Czechoslovakia state. Other Member States of EU are touch on, except the Chapter about liability for industrial injury and professional diseases. In this chapter there is a view of more European states, with some glance into the countries outside EU and complete construction of damages this specific harms on health for their own importance. In constituent chapters I concentrate on categorization of the responsibility in Employment law as sub-category of Liability, its evolution with focus on the protective elements of employment legislation and on interpretation of this therm as one of the fundamental institute of law. The following chapters enumerate the types of liability which we can encounted in Employment Law and introduce their further explanation, the sense and separation to the various point of view, especially in accordance with types of injuries. The decision point of this diploma is...
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February 1948 in printed non-communist media
Pisková, Petra ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis, February 1948 in printed non-communist media, analyses newscast and journalism of the four prominent journals since the 1st February till 14th March 1948. It has been Svobodné slovo, Právo lidu and Lidová demokracie which were the fundamental journals of the three governing parties, and Svobodné noviny which followed the tradition of Lidové noviny. Method of qualitative historical comparative analysis was used for the data processing. In the diploma thesis, the changes in information giving during the changing political situation and succession of communism are evaluated. The outcome of this thesis is the finding that Svobodné slovo, Právo lidu a Lidová demokracie often break the principles of objectivity. On the contrary, Svobodné noviny maintains the highest standard of journalism. All four daily newspapers initially inform negativelly on political actions of KSČ. However, the content of the newspapers changes fundamentally within several days. Since 26th of February onwards, all of them represent KSČ as a political party that lead the state out of crisis. In all the newspapers that have been under observation of this thesis the opinion turnover took place during just a few days. The legitimization of the new regime became a topic of great importance.
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Default Risk of Greek Government During the Crisis of 2010
Veselý, Oldřich ; Dědek, Oldřich (advisor) ; Báťa, Karel (referee)
Many people have already questioned whether Greece would default: investors, economists, politicians and general public. The Greek debt crisis has also caused a great turmoil in the EU causing fears of its spreading to other countries with poor fiscal situation in Eurozone through bond markets. Finally the rescue package was prepared for Greece consisting of EUR 110 billion loan facility from both Eurozone and IMF. We study the Greek fiscal crisis in the thesis. We try to find its real causes in the historical chapter and we also show the methodology which can be used to assess the credit risk of Greek government using bond market information and CDS contracts information. In the empirical part we study the evolution of the probability of default of Greek government during the debt crisis using parsimonious model based on the bond market information.
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Negative, defamatory and mocking political campaigns in the Czech Republic in the years 2006 - 2010 and their effects on public politics [THESIS TEMPORARILY NOT PUBLICLY AVAILABLE]
Mludek, Ivo ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Nekola, Martin (referee)
The phenomenon of political marketing entered - together with democratic political competition - the Czech Republic after 1989. Together with parliamentary elections in 2006 a strong negative election campaigns appeared. The parliamentary elections in 2007 proved a stalemate and they launched a long period of political instability. An unusually sharp and mostly negative election campaign proceeded in the Czech Republic continuously during the years 2006 - 2010. For the first time foreign advisory firms prepared strategies for the biggest political parties - ČSSD and ODS. The election campaigns were characteristic not only of mass enter of negativism imported by the foreign consultants, but also of a great number of anonymous mocking and defamatory political advertisements, the customer and the payer of which was unknown and unable to find. The negative campaigns then introduced both the question of ethical limits in the election marketing and of the harmful influence of opaqueness in contracting and financing the campaigns. The thesis is dealing with regularities of political marketing which got control of Czech political scene in 2006 - 2010, and it formulates hypotheses about the possible effecs of negative, defamatory and mocking political campaigns on the environment of Czech public politics.
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Czech journalist František Gel
Křenová, Kateřina ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
This diploma thesis refers about a famous Czech journalist František Gel (his own name was František Feigel) who lived in 1901-1972. After his unfinished studies he wrote for a weekly Soudní síň (Court room) for a while. Then he spent nine years (1924-1933) as a reporter of Lidové noviny, a very important Czech daily newspaper. In 1933 Gel left for Melantrich press. Melantrich at the time was the biggest publishing house in Czechoslovakia. As the World War II started, Gel left for France and became a member of Czech armed forces. While France was occupied by Nazis, he came to Great Britain where he worked as a War correspondent. After WW II he started to work for the Czechoslovak Radio. He became very popular and famous for his Nurenberg processes' reports in 1946 and 1947. Then he broadcasted Bílá kronika (White chronic1es) programme. It referred about the brave and nice things people did to each other. After a year spent in a diplomatics he started to write the well-known radio programmes which popularized science and history. He retired in 1953. Two years later he started to teachjournalism at the Charles University.
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The African American Critique of Communism in the Novels of Richard Wright, Chester Himes and Ralph Ellison.
BÍCHOVÁ, Marie
This diploma thesis deals with the criticism of communism in the novels of three African-American writers: Richard Wright Native Son and The Outsider, Chester Himes Lonely Crusade and Ralph Ellison Invisible Man. The main characters of their novels, mainly African-Americans, were directly confronted with racial prejudices, injustice during the Great Depression. These unfavorable living situations brought them to the Marxist Ideology. The Communist Party in USA was attractive for African-Americans because their program included the fight for racial equality. After the initial excitement of Marxist Ideology came indignation and disappointment.
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