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The life of secret agent Vojtěch Kučera: microhistorical study
Veselý, Vojtěch ; Činátl, Kamil (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis intends to introduce the life story of Vojtěch Kučera, "agent-walker", who undertook at least twenty-six illegal border crossing across Czechoslovakia border during the years 1946 - 1954. During his last illegal border crossing he was catched, accused of espionage and then sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in the year 1955. The first part of the thesis is based on three variations of Kučera's life story. These three stories are constructed (and later deconstructed ) by using informations from family memories, Kučera's statement as well as from the film Agent K vypovídá. The second part of the thesis is based on several microhistorical probes. By using microhistorical analysis we aim to understand Kučera's thinking, behaving and motivations.
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Russian civil war. Reflections in the Czechoslovak society (1918-1921)
Chleboun, Jan ; Šedivý, Ivan (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
This work deals with the reflection of Russian civil war (1918-1921) in Czechoslovak society. It focuses on the media presentation of the warring oponents, on the changes of this image during the conflict, as well as on the contemporary war reporting and public awareness. It also explores attitude of different groups of inhabitants and representatives of the state, as well as the influences and connections between events in Czechoslovakia and Russia. The work is mainly based on the research in contemporary press and various publications.
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The Import and Distribution of Gramophone Records under the Normalization in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Andrs, Jiří ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
This work engages in the import and distribution of the audio storages, concretely the gramophone records to Czechoslovakia. A gramophone record - differently to other audio storages like reel-to-reel tape records or later the cassettes - was meanwhile also an artefact that personified an attractive exoticness of the western world and because of its format and graphical elaboration it represented a valuable object of popular culture. The work is based on the assumption that the development of Czechoslovak musical subcultures depended largely on the distribution of gramophone records. That is why author focuses his attention on the unofficial import of the LP records by private persons. The very limited state-controlled import of this product will be also partly taken in account. An important question within this work is the import of the west-made music from other socialist states. In many of those countries licenses of those LPs were released much more often than in CSSR. Compared to the original western LPs it was easier for Czechoslovakian citizens to reach them - because of better possibilities to travel to socialist countries and yet because of a relatively low prices of eastern presses. Student also tries to revise the common notion (typical for both academic and non-academic sphere)...
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Working and influence of Karel Lamač in the film industry of the First Czechoslovak Republic
Jindra, Jan ; Michela, Miroslav (advisor) ; Kvaček, Robert (referee)
The submitted diploma thesis is engaged in working of the film industry in Czechoslovakia in period among two world wars, which is seen through the important actor, scriptwriter, director and film entrepreneur Karel Lamač. The issue is researched especially from the perspective of formation and activity of the film companies which were professional associated with the person of Lamač. It is followed up the family background which he came from, and the milieu where he worked the First World War. It further focuses on Lamač's first steps in the field of cinematography after 1918 and on his working at the time of the First Czechoslovak Republic. It is also reflected Lamač's activity as an inventor and a journalistic author, as well as related financial profit from the subsequent sale of patents or licences to the created movies. The thesis tries to clear up the mechanisms that led to exceptional position of this artist in the Czechoslovak film industry, with regard to his professional outreach to the international sphere. The study also devotes to Lamač's most significant projects and co-workers in the field of cinematography in order to refer the extent to which he contributed to the popularity of contemporary film-stars. The treatise of the most important life divides of creator after his final...
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Plane Hijack in Prague in 1989 - Motivations, Course, and Impact of an Attempt to Escape Communist Czechoslovakia
Styková, Klaudia ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the case of the hijacking of the MÁLEV Hungarian Airlines aeroplane. This took place at Prague Ruzyně Airport on March 29th 1989 where the aircraft Tupolev Tu-154 B2 on the scheduled flight MA640 from Budapest to Amsterdam had a stopover. This thesis further deals with the issue of unlawful acts against the safety of civil aviation and with Czechoslovak legislation relating to these unlawful acts. The thesis provides an overview of unlawful acts of civil aviation that occurred in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1991. The course of the hijacking, profiles of the hijackers, sequence of the investigation in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic as well as the sequence of investigation in the Federal Republic of Germany, where the plane landed and where the hijackers were arrested, investigated and ultimately judged is also analysed. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the motivations of the hijackers. In conclusion, I attempt to clarify the causes of hijacking as well as I attempt to justify or disprove the current hypothesis that the main reason for the hijacking was not the socialist regime in Czechoslovakia. Key words: hijack, Prague Ruzyně Aiport, Frankfurt - Rhein-Main Air Base, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, 1989
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Luděk Pik: political profile of eminent mayor of Pilsen
Bartoš, Jakub ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
The aim of the thesis: to capture the life of the Czech social democratic politician and former mayor of Pilsen, Luděk Pik, with a specific focus on his political activities in the city. This thesis also aims to understand and clarify Pik's relation to Pilsen and the relevance to his life, as well as his essential role in the history of this West Bohemian metropolis. Luděk Pik (18. 5. 1876 Prague - 19. 4. 1948 Pilsen) lived in Pilsen for almost five decades of his life (1901-1948), except the period during the Nazi occupation (1939- 1945). Since 1901 he worked in Pilsen for the Czechoslavonic Social Democratic Workers Party, where he quickly became the local party elite. At the end of the World War I he participated in the establishment of an independent Czechoslovak state. In 1919-1938 he served continuously as mayor of the city of Pilsen and significantly contributed to its modernization and development. He also sat in Cisleithanian and Czechoslovakian legislatures. After the Munich Treaty he was forced to stand down from his political status and was persecuted during the Nazi occupation. The post-war situation prevented his return to a public life. His memoirs and especially his literary works demonstrate his strong patriotic relation to this city. Luděk Pik represents, in modern history of...
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The Monument of the "Benes Letters"?(The Statue of the President Benes in Prague as a "Place of Memory")
Trepeš, Matěj ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
in English The Monument of the "Benes Letters"? (The Statue of the President Benes in Prague as a "Place of Memory") This dissertation shows the gallery of various moods of recollections the Czech politician Edvard Beneš (1884−1948) during the years 2002−2005, it means around the great easterly enlargement of the European Union. In these period many controversies were led internationally and bilaterally about the "Benes Letters" and about the displacement of Germans after the WW2, in the Czech Republic about the issue "Benes and communism", too. The introduction sketches the theoretical and methodological starting points of this dissertation, and then recapitulates the European context of the problems and the structure of this study. The second chapter looks into the research of E. Benes in the milieu of the Czech pro- Benes contemporary witnesses of him and their organizations, characterizes their narrative and shows their activities, which were done in direction to the celebration of this hero. The third chapter analyzes another one type of the Benes recollection in Czech − the example of one caricatural bust of Benes, artwork of artistic group Pode Bal, and shows the contemporary political context of this intervention. The fourth chapter analyzes the pictures of Benes in the Czech political...
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The press of czech fascism in period Great Depression
Král, Martin ; Michela, Miroslav (advisor) ; Randák, Jan (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to deepen the scientific processing of Czech fascism, especially its press and propaganda activities. The author focused on the prints of Czech fascists from the period of the Great Depression 1929-1935, mainly on the application of linguistic discourse and fascist ideology into the Czechoslovak environment. The work uncovers the personal and financial secure of fascist press. The author compared presentation of economic crisis in the press of Czech fascist and Sudeten German national socialism. Both movements used the crisis to anti-democratic rhetoric and also used comparable propaganda techniques, but their interpretaion of the crisis was diametrically different. The final part is devoted to covert propaganda in literary genres that fascist press presented as a fun and relaxing literature. Roles of these texts were represent fascist program, provide patterns of behaviour and promote ideology of Czech fascism.
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The course and methods of collectivisation of the rural areas in the District of Kutná Hora in the 1950's.
Stříbrná, Anežka ; Rychlík, Jan (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
The diploma thesis depicts the mode and course of collectivization of the rural areas in the district of Kutná Hora in years 1948-1960. It is based on the analysis of five villages - Bahno, Opatovice I, Petrovice I, Mitrov a Vranice (the little town of Kácov is also included for comparison reasons). The thesis describes how the unified binding principles of the state- controlled agricultural politics of KSČ reflected into the socialization of concrete villages and how they influenced the daily life and destinies of their inhabitants. The thesis also concentrates on the individual reactions towards the collectivization, especially those of local functionaries, focusing on which means and strategies these used against the ruling power. The central question is whether, and to what extent, the functionaries could influence and shape the village life and how they influenced the local form of socialization. The objective of this thesis is to show a more vivid picture of the agricultural collectivization and, at the same time, to offer a certain typology of its participants. Apart from the comparison of the mode of collectivization in concrete villages, their example also shows the differences between the first and second (final) phase of the collectivization of the rural areas. The thesis is based...
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Border protection and generating of the image of the extraneous enemy in Czechoslovakia 1948-1956
Palivodová, Eva ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
The topic of the graduation thesis is border protection and the generating of the image of the extraneous enemy in Czechoslovakia between the years 1948 and 1956. The thesis emphasizes the continuity of the system of border protection with the previous development. On this account the thesis makes a survey of the development of the system of border protection in Bohemia and Czechoslovakia. The thesis describes the development of establishment of border protection authorities, the instruments of border protection, then deals with the questions of so-called border zone and forbidden zone and describes some components of everyday life of the border guards in the fifties. Second part of the thesis deals with the questions of generating of the propaganda image of the border guard and the extraneous enemies, who the border guard fought against. This image made by communist propaganda affected the inhabitants significantly and upheld the system of border protection. It formed the opinions of the inhabitants about the frontier-guard and the extraneous enemies.
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