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Documents concerning activities of Bohumil Laušman in Austrian and British archives
Pernes, Jiří
Bohumil Laušman was a social-democratic politician. He influenced the Czechoslovak politics between 1945-1948 and he contributed to the development of the socialist society. He emigrated to Federal Republic of Germany (Oberursel) after February 1948. Later, he went to Yugoslavia and Austria. He was kidnapped back to Czechoslovakia in 1953. Laušman was active in exile as we can see from archival collections. They can be found not only in Austrian and Serbian archives but also in British archives, e. g. in the documents of Blažej Vilím, Karl Maiwald or Jan Svoboda. Another important source of information is comprised in the memoirs of Rudolf Krupička. Krupička was a chemist who went to Yugoslavia with Laušman and supported him financially. He published a book where he describes their experiences. Materials relating to Laušman are available in the USA, too.
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University of political science and economics (1949-1953)
Olšáková, Doubravka
The University of political science and economics (1949-1953) had been established as an university of a new type which main aim was to educate and to train new political elite and technocracy of new regime. New students had been recruited from special courses for proletarians. The university had three faculties – of economics, of international relations and social sciences, it had been planned that they would accept 1000 students per academic year. The university introduced a new type of studies („engaged studies“) as well as new courses as e.g. Marxism-Leninism. At the beginning of 1950ties the UPSE played an important role in the process of establishment of a new course in the university curriculum in the communist Czechoslovakia.
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On oral history and teaching history in classroom
Vaněk, Miroslav ; Mücke, Pavel
The article examines the benefits and pitfalls of the use of oral history in history teaching at universities, secondary and elementary schools. Resume derives from the own pedagogical experiences and is also based on the experience gained from the activities within the Czech Oral History Association.
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Double rebirth. The Czechoslovak people´s arty 1989-1992
Gjuričová, Adéla
The text depicts the ways in which the Czechoslovak People’s Party (ČSL) formulated, re-told, or otherwise dealt with its own past within the socialist dictatorship and the communist past in general. It is suggested that the rhetorical figure of „party rebirth“ made it possible to leave out the fourty years‘ collaborationist existence and to tie the post-1989 democratic phase directly to pre-1948 ČSL. Yet another rebirth under Josef Lux left out even the leaders of the first rebirth, including Josef Bartončík and the scandal of his cooperation with the secret police. However, both of the turns have built on the idea of a „healthy undercurrent“ of the ordinary party members that carry on the party’s „real identity“ whatever the time and regime.
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