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Reflections on Complicity in the Holocaust in the Public Media Space: Reactions to the Lidice Case and the Polish Holocaust Law
Ryšánková, Marína ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Fapšo, Marek (referee)
(in English) The aim of this master's thesis is to explore how the Holocaust is portrayed in various contexts and reflected in the public media. Specifically, the study examines the Czech and Polish perspectives on Holocaust involvement, societal perceptions, media coverage, and statements by politicians and historians. The research is based on one case study from each country. In 2018, Poland enacted a law to address the naming of concentration camps, asserting that Poles were not involved in the Holocaust. The Polish Holocaust law received global criticism. In 2019, the Lidice case emerged, involving a historian's claim that a Lidice woman reported her Jewish subtenant. This study compares reactions to both cases.
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Housing Estate in Reflections of the Times. Changes in Urban Planning and Housing Between Normalization and the 1990s on the Example of Jižní Město II
Kundrát, Jan ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Pácha, Martin (referee)
(in English): The presented diploma thesis deals with the topic of Prague housing estate Jižní Město II (South City II), its visions, projecting and realization. It examines approaches to the creation of a residential environment, changes in opinions and ideas of ideal living, from the perspective of the architects. It analyses these aspects in the period from the 1970s to the 1990s, examining how the phenomenon of creating housing estates changed in these periods. This work analyses the selected topics on the basis of archival materials of an architectural origin, architectural magazines in which architects published at that time, as well as professional literature. Mass housing constructing with the aim of quick and effective solution of the housing crisis was accompanied by the typification and standardization of construction elements and the industrialization of the construction industry as such. After the introduction of the panel technology, increasingly large housing estates began to emerge, but many problems were associated with them. People moved into an under-construction uniform environment with no sidewalks, shops or services. This work analyses how the architects of Jižní Město II, which was supposed to become a model housing estate, responded to this situation in the second half of...
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Education in Kolín Area during the Normalization Period
Procházka, Jakub ; Fapšo, Marek (advisor) ; Randák, Jan (referee)
The aim of the thesis will be to analyze the change in conditions at primary schools in Kolín during the normalization period. The research will focus mainly on the history of everyday life in several schools and common problems that the pedagogical environment at that time had to deal with. To accomplish the goal, it uses a range of historiographical, heuristic and methodological procedures. It will assign a smaller role to oral history methods such as interviews and questionnaires. It will be aware of the complications arising from the selectivity of respondents' answers. For this purpose, it will draw knowledge from the works of oral history experts Pavel Mücke and Miroslav Vaňek for interpretation. Other sources will include school chronicles, ONV Kolín Council files and articles from regional newspapers. At the end of the work, the appendices will present the statements of individual witnesses, to whom, however, anonymous names will be assigned to protect their privacy.
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The situation is critical. The problem of air pollution in the Most region in the 1960s
Novotná, Nikola ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
The presented thesis aims to show the possibilities of society's response to a gradually recognized problematic phenomenon in the environment exploited by intensive industrial expansion under the conditions of state socialism: air pollution. It will focus on the air quality in the area of Most and its surroundings in the 1960s by tracing the interaction of human impact on the air and conversely at the time when the topic of pollution began to be reflected and addressed in the documents of the national committees in the selected area. The ambition is also to capture the formation of expert knowledge, its involvement in dealing with the situation and to trace the creation and application of environmental legislation. The works published so far usually follow the later period, especially the so-called normalisation. The thesis, by its chronological focus, will productively contribute to the pension of knowledge of the currently primarily historical community on the issue of air pollution in the second half of the 20th century.
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Czechoslovak Exile Scouting in England 1939-1945
Kurusová, Lucie ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Randák, Jan (referee)
This bachelor's thesis depicts the form of Czechoslovak Scouting in exile in England in the years 1939-1945. One of the main aims of this thesis is to find out the role of the English exile in the history of the Czech Scouting movement, including the development of membership and the progress or regression of the organisation Junák - Svaz skautů a skautek RČS. Other questions are the relationship of the exile scout organization to the Czechoslovak government in exile or a form of contact and possible cooperation with other youth organisations in exile. The protagonist of the Czechoslovak exile scout activities was Velen Fanderlik, so most of the sources are related to him. Apart from the activities of the exile scouts and their relationship with the exile environment, the thesis also deals with the context of the Czechoslovak Scouting before the Second World War and the formation of Rover scout groups in military units.
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Jazz came in through the ajar door. The Czechoslovak path of cultular and social liberation.
Štěrba, Heřman ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Stehlík, Michal (referee)
Against the background of political changes, the transformation of writing about jazz music, the jazz festival in Prague, the example of the jazz festival itself and the personality of Karl Krautgartner, the bachelor's thesis will show in what contexts, in what ways and with what difficulties the release of cultural, primarily musical life, took place in Czechoslovakia How a part of Czechoslovak culture waited for every sign of easing pressure from the Communist Party, and how flexibly it reacted to it. In our case, it is precisely through jazz music that one can get to know the situation in the former Czechoslovakia and the political, social and cultural changes that took place during the 1960s.
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For the sobering up of the nation - state policy against alcoholism 1948-1962
Balogh, Branislav ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Rychlík, Jan (referee)
(in English): The thesis deals with the state policy against alcoholism in the period 1948-1962 with an overlap into the history of the first half of the 20th century, with an emphasis on Slovakia, but in the context of nationally adopted norms. In the first chapter, which is the core of the thesis, the author introduces the level of state policy, traces the emergence of Law No. 87/1948 Zb., as well as its application in practice. Recognizing that laws do not just come into being, he also brings the public debate prior to its adoption into focus. It introduces the reader to the cultural milieu since World War II and notes state measures in the truncated post-war democratic republic. It presents the basic continuity of the medical, health and moral narrative from the end of the war to 1962, when Law No. 120/1962 Zb. is adopted. Starting from nationwide sources, it uses the method of probing in the districts of Senec and Pezinok to show empirically the regional application of the norms. It traces the basic strategies of the actors and the course of the emergence of the new institution of anti-alcohol corps. It places their emergence in the broader context of state measures and presents the prehistory of this institution. It traces the possibilities of applying a totalitarian versus revisionist...
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The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the printed journalism in Third Czechoslovak Republic
Karas, Michal ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Gjuričová, Adéla (referee)
Diploma thesis is focused on the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the printed journalism in Third Czechoslovak Republic from May 1945 to February 1948. Thesis is divided into three main chapters. The first one deals with opinions of significant communist representatives (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin a Klement Gottwald). Second part sets the topic into context of history of KSČ during Third Czechoslovak Republic. The last chapter deals with own topic and it is divided into three main subchapters. First one describes state of communist journalism after Second World War in general perspective and then in form of chosen newspapers and magazines (Rudé právo, Tvorba, Nedělní noviny, Nová mysl and Funkcionář). Second subchapter contains description of apparatus of KSČ, which was responsible for administration of the printed journalism. Topic of the third subchapter is printed politics of KSČ during years 1945 to 1948. It is initially described in general tendencies and then of point of view of concrete phenomena in separate subchapter (the ration of newsprint for publishing house, guidelines for editorial staff, campaigns for the expansion of the press, the agitation for the subscription of the press and new subscribers, the ideal party member...
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"Hej, holalá, skaut má nahá kolena" or scouting in the interwar period
Jiráň, Jan ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Balík, Stanislav (referee) ; Randák, Jan (referee)
This dissertation focuses on history of czech scouting from its foundation in 1911 and 1912 to the first ban in 1940 by Nazis. It focus not only on the history of current scout organisation Junák - český but also to other contemporary important associations. On the example of several topics study how was symbolic capitl in czech sociaty and how changend perspective of the scouting during 30 years of scouts aktivity. To the researched topics belongs relationship of czech scouts tu public, army, nation or czech scouts aktivity in borderland of Czechoslovakia republic.
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