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Reflexion of Pol Pot's Regime in Communist Czechoslovakia
Židlický, Jan ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
This diploma thesis at first analyzes the brutal regime in Cambodia beetween the years 1975-1979. The goal for the readers is briefly to describe this Khmer Rouge regime. It was inhuman and genocide regime which, after taking control of this land began to implement a huge social experiment. This experiment resulted into two milions deads. One half of the diseases, overwork and starvation, one half of the executions. The purpose of this big disaster was a attempt to put this southeast Asia land into self-sufficiency agriculture state. This situation was a work of a small group of people. The main of them was o Pol Pot. In the second part diploma describes a reflection of this regime in communist Czechoslovakia. This part is based on the research in newspapers of this era and research in archive of Ministry of external affairs. The regime in Czechoslovakia was a communist and very conform to foreign policy of the Soviet Union. So the articles in the communist press was not the official statepoint of Czechoslovak govement. At first the governement was a very happy of winning the new regime, because the previous Lon Nol's was very fixed to the United States. After the year 1976 the locals confrontations beetween Cambodia and Vietnam began. In this time carried on the clash beetween China and Soviet...
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War of 1866 in the Northern Battlefield
Zadák, Rostislav ; Županič, Jan (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
This work deals with the events of the Jizera front, which significantly influenced the Austrian North Army campaign against the Prussian armies in 1866. On Jizera front has gradually formed so-called the Jizera Army Group, which was formed by the Austrian Ist Army Corps, the Austrian 1st Light Cavalry Division and Saxon Army Corps. This army group in parts gradually faced attacking Prussian 1st and Elbe Army. Under their pressure and due to new orders Jizera group had to retread to Jičín. There was a battle, in which get in almost whole Jizera group. The battle ended in the retreat and disintegration of this group. This had major importance and led ultimately to retreat across North army to Hradec Králové.
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"Despite All the Poet Kept Singing..." A Contribution to a Study Dealing with the State Security Police Forces᾽ Approach to Our Folk Scene, as Seen on the Example of Karel Kryl
Stehlíková, Veronika ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the State security police forces᾽ approach to Czech folk scene. The first part consists of Karel Kryl᾽s biography, great emphasis is placed also on his literary work. The second part discusses the folk scene in Czechoslovakia from 60s to 80s, including the State security police forces᾽ approach. Specifically not only Karel Kryl but also Jiří Pallas, Jaroslav Hutka, Vlastimil Třešňák and Vladimír Merta are presented based on the materials kept in the Security Services Archive. The thesis shows that the State security police forces᾽ approach was not unified, even though some common things can be found. In case of Karel Kryl living in exile the technique was reduced to intervention against his work. In case of the folk singers living at home State security police tried to reduce or completely terminate their public actions, most often doing so by controlling and cancelling their concerts. The main conclusion of the thesis is that they were not very successful at this effort, because most of their energy was devoted to persecuting the signatories of Charter 77. Strong actions were taken against the folk singers, who signed it as well. The contribution of this thesis is based on working with archival materials that practically have not yet been used in the specialized literature.
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Propaganda of the British Union of Fascists
Drábik, Jakub ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee) ; Skřivan, Aleš (referee)
Disertační práce: Propaganda Britské unie fašistů Mgr. Jakub Drábik Ústav světových dějin Abstract The dissertation deals with the propaganda of the largest and only relevant British fascist party, the British Union of Fascists, founded in 1932 by Sir Oswald Mosley. The aim of the dissertation is to look at the BUF propaganda in the light of the "new consensus" that has emerged in fascist studies in recent years. Based on the official BUF party press, publications, pamphlets, propaganda posters, speeches and public appearances of the movement's leading figures and other forms of propaganda, this work analyses the propaganda of the BUF not just in the terms of crude "brainwashing" or "social control," but also as a form of social engineering - in other words, as a serious attempt to realize the ideas of an alternative modernity and of a political, economic, social and cultural revolution. In spite of widely held view that the BUF was only a group of crude anti-Semites, thugs, bullies or even opportunists with materialistic goals, this work argues that the "propagation of faith" or "the dissemination of political beliefs" was one of the motives of BUF propagandists.
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The English Intellectuals in the Whirl of Revolutionary France: Interpretation of Political Events from the Perspective of Contemporaries
Borodáčová, Jana ; Skřivan, Aleš (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
This Diploma thesis focuses on the investigation of impact of French Revolution into the development of political views of three Englishmen who represent three levels of view of revolutionary events: idealistic, radical and critical. Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) represents an idealistic school of thought especially within the idea on universal citizenship and messianism of French Revolution. Simultaneously, she also represents some opinions of female population and their expectations relating to the status of women. Thomas Paine (1737-1809), a member of Convention and a supporter of the Girondists is an example of a radical religious view. The last of the trio is a physiocrat and a writer Arthur Young (1741-1820) who visited France before the Revolution. He became a witness and also a critic of the early revolutionary events. Key Words Helen Maria Williams, Thomas Paine, Arthur Youn, The French Revolution.
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Relations between Czechoslovak and French Freemasons, 1918-1939
Preradová, Jarmila ; Horčička, Václav (advisor) ; Županič, Jan (referee)
At the same time when Czechoslovakia came into existence, Freemasonry started to establish and develop in that new country. Many new lodges were created all over the state, but the centre was in Prague. The independent Grand lodge The National Grand Lodge of Chzechoslovakia had existed since 1923 and the members were Czechs and Slovaks together. That system was involved in international structures in the interwar period. The thesis focuses on an analysis of relationship between Czech a French Freemanors inter two world wars. The two-way communication of members from both countries is analysed by visits, correspondence, giving an honorary memebership, etc. The other object of research is frequency of communication and its changes in time. The thesis also deals with three questions: if the succesfully cooperation of both countries was based on the Grand lodge or its individual members and if the relationship of the countries was at official or unofficial level and how many persons were involved. Key words: Freemasonry, Czechoslovakia, France
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Government versus Trade Unions: Contribution to the Study of the Miners᾽ Strike in the 1980s᾽ Britain
Šmigol, Ondřej ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
The thesis focuses on the analysis of the miners' strike in Great Britain in years 1984-1985. It examines its roots in the 1970s, the failure of the Edward Heath's administration and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government preparation for the strike. The main emphasis is laid on the analysis of the course of the strike. It examines in detail the period between March 1984 and March 1985, when National Union of Mineworkers decided to strike against the policies of Margaret Thatcher. It analyses the way the strike started, the strategies, achievements and errors of both sides of the dispute. It extensively deals with the manifestations of violence during the strike and with the situation of the miners' families. The last chapter mentions the consequences of the strike.
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Warsaw Treaty Organization 1969-1985. The pinnacle and path to dissolution
Bílý, Matěj ; Pelikán, Jan (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee) ; Litera, Bohuslav (referee)
Ph.D. thesis abstract PhDr. Matěj Bílý The Ph.D. thesis "The Warsaw Treaty Organization 1969-1985. The pinnacle and path to dissolution" analyses inside processes within both political and military structures of the alliance and puts it in the context of the Cold War's development and the events in the Soviet sphere of influence in Europe. It deals mostly with the climax of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's rule, however, attention is paid also to the short intermezzo of his successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. The work is based on a broad research in the Czech, Polish and German archives, already published documents and the proper secondary literature. The explanation focuses not only to the development of the organization's mechanisms - it also asses the Warsaw Pact's role as one of the Kremlin's tools for managing the Eastern Bloc. Nonetheless, during Brezhnev's era, the alliance never became an initiator of processes within the Soviet sphere of interest. In fact, the organization's structures were not very initiative. The agenda of meetings was defined elsewhere, most often in Moscow. The activities in the alliance's framework did not constitute a starting-point for the development in the Soviet sphere of influence. On the contrary, the processes within the Warsaw Treaty Organization...
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The City of Danzig in the Foreign Policy of the Nazi Germany, 1933-1939
Bandžuch, Tomáš ; Horčička, Václav (advisor) ; Koura, Jan (referee)
The topic of the thesis is an evolution of the Free city of Danzig in 1930's and the role it played in German and Polish politics during the aforemetioned period consecutively to the evolution of the situation in the city of Danzig in 1920's. The particular elementary processes of the Free city of Danzig's nazification are described here as well as key moments that fundamentally affected the city's standing within the local as well as international political environment. The thesis also focuses on the analysis of the Polish and German foreign policy's influence over the power ballance between relevant actors and to which extent the situation in Danzig contributed to the increase of tensions between Poland and Germany, which in the end led to the beginning of the WWII. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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