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The reform movement and the normalization of relations in Jihlava (1960- 1971)
Pavlíčková, Tereza ; Rychlík, Jan (advisor) ; Kvaček, Robert (referee)
This master thesis, The reform movement and the normalization of relations in Jihlava (1960-1971), maps the course of that period in Jihlava, the capital of the region Vysočina. The first part of this work includes a brief introduction into the atmosphere in Czechoslovakia in 1960s and the historical development in Jihlava in the same period. The second chapter describes the course of events from the beginning of year 1968, colloquially called "The Prague Spring". New politicians ascended to the politic power and established a new theory, which was called "Socialism with a human face". The third part deals with the invasion of the Warsaw Pact army of Czechoslovakia on 21st August 1968. The text focuses mainly on Jihlava. The fifth chapter describes the course of events in Czechoslovakia since the second half of year 1968 to April 1971. This period is called normalization and is characterized by retreating from the post-January policy, personnel changes, restoring censorship, etc. The last part of the thesis concerns itself with Evžen Plocek. He was an active reform politician in Jihlava and committed suicide in April 1969. He burned himself to death due to the consequences of the Warsaw Pact army invasion of The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968.
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Czechoslovakia 1968. Attempt at Socialism with Human Faces
Švarc, Zdeněk ; Tůma, Oldřich (advisor) ; Kocian, Jiří (referee)
This work considers questions, why the prevention of attempt to socialism with a human face in Czechoslovakia took place in 1968. The work sequentially makes a statement on then political mentality in that era as well as it considers the outer influences that led to an army intervention of Warsaw Pact's lands into Czechoslovakia in August 1968. The work should answer the following question, why the break of sub political progress came true that consequently aimed at the normalization orientation.
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Press and cultural politics in pardubice region in times of normalization
Trestrová, Veronika ; Končelík, Jakub (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
This dissertation gives a comprehensive picture of the press organs of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the district of Pardubice during the so-called normalization. The first chapter describes the historical contexts of this era, particularly changes in policy after the onset of Gustáv Husák at the head of the Communist Party in April 1969. With this change is related to another topic: extensive purges in the Communist Party, which took place in 1970. The second chapter focuses on changes in the media at the beginning of normalization, in particular the abolition of some periodicals and restoring censorship, and changes in the cultural field, especially strengthening the focus on the Soviet Union, the emergence of new artists' unions and various legal regulation in order to strengthen ideological supervision of the this sphere . The third and fourth sections are devoted East Bohemian press: daily newspaper Pochodeň, published in Hradec Králové, and Pardubice district newspaper Zář. It briefly describes the history of these newspapers and their effect during the Prague Spring and subsequent developments in normalization. Attention is then focussed mainly on their cultural sections and their scope, content and authors of articles. Analysis of the articles from the cultural sections provides...
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"Conditions of exile: language, text and history in the work of Libuše Moníková and Milan Kundera"
Reuter, Magdalena Antonia ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to demarcate the term "exile" and its conditions, further the thesis explores the impacts this experience has on a writer's work, especially the problem of writing in a foreign language and the character of translation. Concretely the present thesis is based on the literary work of Libuše Moníková and Milan Kundera. The first chapter examines the general research field in detail and the occurrence of related themes in the production of both authors. The following two chapters treat individual aspects of work created under the condition of exile - language and translation on the one hand, the correlations of text and history on the other. The findings of all analyses performed within this diploma thesis relate not only to the individual authors, but can be employed to specify and supplement the over-all picture of Czech literature of the second half of the 20th century, as the phenomenon of exile is essential for the understanding of this specific period. Keywords Literature in exile, Milan Kundera, Libuše Moníkové, Prague Spring, translation.
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1968
Švarc, Zdeněk ; Tůma, Oldřich (advisor) ; Smetana, Vít (referee)
This work considers questions, why the prevention of attempt to socialism with a human face in Czechoslovakia took place in 1968. The work sequentially makes a statement on then political mentality in that era as well as it considers the outer influences that led to an army intervention of Warsaw Pact's lands into Czechoslovakia in August 1968. The work should answer the following question, why the break of sub political progress came true that consequently aimed at the normalization orientation.
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Media content analysis of the IV Congress of the Association of Czechoslovak Writers in daily newspapers and culture press
Štěpánová, Petra ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Jonáková, Anna (referee)
The subject of this bachelor thesis is media content analysis of the IVth Congress of the Association of Czechoslovak Writers, which took place in 1967. Analysed press is: daily newspapers Rudé právo ("The Red Law") and Práce ("The Work") and culture press Literární noviny ("The Literary Newspapers") and Literární listy ("The Literary Pages"). This thesis contains not only the mentions about the IVth congress of writers but also the following events as regards the writers association because it had been tightly connected to this IVth congress. The thesis tries to compare the image created by the analysed media in 1967/1968 with the historic reality. There were two main aims of this thesis. Firstly, to learn if the analysed media reported objectively about the IVth Congress of the Association of Czechoslovak Writers, secondly, to find if there is a difference as concerns the freedom of press between the years 1967 and 1968. During the analysis it became obvious that all those media published incomplete and vague news about the IVth congress until the end of the year 1967. From January 1968 on, daily newspapers were allowed to inform about the IVth congress much more objectively, but after six months and mainly in the form of comments. That is against the main characteristics of daily press - to...
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Reflection in period newspapers of Czech directors of the sixties in the time of their return after the enforced work break
Jílková, Alžběta ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
The thesis finds out the manner and the range of reviewing comeback of directors and their new films after enforced work break during the Czechoslovak normalization. For the purpose of the research were chosen articles published in 4 daily newspapers, concerning Rudé právo, Mladá fronta, Lidová demokracie a Zemědělské noviny, and 3 special film periodicals Záběr, Kino and Film a doba. These periodicals were examined in period from 1974 to 1979, in the period of comeback of all chosen directors, starting with Věra Chytilová, Jiří Menzel, Hynek Bočan and ending with Juraj Jakubisko and František Vláčil. These daily newspapers occasionally publish the critics, by contrast the film periodicals review Czech and Slovak films very often wit reportages, critics, interview or short reporting. The evaluation of directors and their films depended on several aspects: first of all on the behavior of directors and attitude to socialistic state and politics, on the author of literature artwork (in case of novels for example), on characteristic of socialistic society presented by films and also on the author of certain critic. The best evaluation gets Menzel's film which was talking about socialistic workers and Vláčil's film, an adaptation of national socialistic writer Bohumil Říha's novel. The smallest review gets...
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The Onset of Normalisation in the Czechoslovak Television
Slunečková, Karin ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This thesis tackles the onset of normalisation in Czechoslovak Television between 1969-1975. Firstly the author introduces the reader to the subject through the historical context. Above all, the thesis focuses on dramatic changes that affected Czechoslovak Television in that era. Further, the thesis is dedicated to one of main players and representatives of normalisation in Czechoslovak media, general director of Czechoslovak Television Jan Zelenka, who remained in office between years 1969 and 1989. The author uses not only published sources, but also internal documents and databases of Czechoslovak Television and documents from the National Archive. In the analytical part of the thesis the author describes the function and structure of Ideological Thematic Plans which served as a foundation document for the TV broadcasting for one year to the next. Using the Ideological Thematic Plan of 1973 the author analyses their content. The author carries out an in-depth analysis of three TV programmes chosen from the Ideological Thematic Plan of 1973. These programmes represent three different genres - a broadcast targeting the young Through Young Eyes (Mladýma očima), a television series of nine episodes Mother (Matka), and a feature film, And Give My Love to the Swallows (…a pozdravuj vlaštovky)....
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Prague Spring 1968 - conflict of interpretations
Hlaváčová, Kamila ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the period of the Prague Spring which was significant for the Czechoslovak history. This period is characterized by an attempt of Czechoslovak politicians and society to establish a specific path to socialism. Main aim of the thesis is to answer the question of whether the process of revival of the 60s carried a potential for political pluralism and a possibility of democratization or whether the process should be rather seen as liberalization. Answer to this question is sought primarily through an analysis of historical documents, drafts of reforms and through a process of formation of non-communist organizations.
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