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Socialism is work. The life of Rudolf Bechyně 1881-1948
Noha, Jiří ; Kuklík jun., Jan (advisor) ; Gebhart, Jan (referee)
The present thesis discusses the life of Rudolf Bechyně, the eminent Czech Social-Democratic politician of the first half of the twentieth century. The author studies in a practically chronological order the life's path of the poli tician, start ing in Moravia (sti ll dur ing the era of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), over the period of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia, until his exile to London during the Second Wor ld War when Bechyně, a s the Chairman of the Council of State, became together wi th the President Edvard Beneš the main leader of the Czech resistance movement abroad. Wi th respect to extant archival materials, the thesi s focuses more systematically on the description of Bechyně' s work at the Ministry of Public Supply, as well as on the last decade of his life when the politician was forced to revalue most of hi s atti tudes and principles. Al though the author tends to follow the traditional biographical pattern, through the fate of Rudolf Bechyně he furthermore depicts the fate of the Czech Social Democratic Party. A certain excursus of the thesis is presented in an attempt at a comparison of the socialist ideas and their differentiation under the influence of the Bolshevik Revolution; and in a separate case study of the politicalcultural review Nová Svoboda published by the left-wing...
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Social Democracy in Interwar Czechoslovakia - Figures, Ideas, Trends 1920 - 1937
Noha, Jiří ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Kvaček, Robert (referee) ; Doubek, Vratislav (referee)
The thesis on the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Labour Party in the interwar years (1920 - 1937) describes the organizational structure of the party, a political programme and the impact of this political and economical programme on the party's behaviour during the years of the world economic crisis. The thesis points out the differences between the two generations of the party and their leaders namely Antonín Hampl and Václav Patzak or Jaroslav Čecháček and examines the conceptions of these factions. Afterwards the thesis analyzes the position of the party in the czechoslovak political system between the wars, the competiton with the communist party and the activity of the party's ministers in their offices (particularly in the 1930's). Finally the thesis provides an explanation for the close party's connection with the first Czechoslovak republic and concludes the party's indentity was based on the same values. czechoslovak social democracy, the First Czechoslovak Republic, political and economic programmes, political system, communism, planism
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Socialism is work. The life of Rudolf Bechyně 1881-1948
Noha, Jiří ; Kuklík jun., Jan (advisor) ; Gebhart, Jan (referee)
The present thesis discusses the life of Rudolf Bechyně, the eminent Czech Social-Democratic politician of the first half of the twentieth century. The author studies in a practically chronological order the life's path of the poli tician, start ing in Moravia (sti ll dur ing the era of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), over the period of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia, until his exile to London during the Second Wor ld War when Bechyně, a s the Chairman of the Council of State, became together wi th the President Edvard Beneš the main leader of the Czech resistance movement abroad. Wi th respect to extant archival materials, the thesi s focuses more systematically on the description of Bechyně' s work at the Ministry of Public Supply, as well as on the last decade of his life when the politician was forced to revalue most of hi s atti tudes and principles. Al though the author tends to follow the traditional biographical pattern, through the fate of Rudolf Bechyně he furthermore depicts the fate of the Czech Social Democratic Party. A certain excursus of the thesis is presented in an attempt at a comparison of the socialist ideas and their differentiation under the influence of the Bolshevik Revolution; and in a separate case study of the politicalcultural review Nová Svoboda published by the left-wing...
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