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Television Youth Club 1973-1984: motives, agents, ideology.
Koláčková, Terezie ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
The topic of this thesis is a journalistic program Television Youth Club between 1973 and 1984. The thesis investigates establishment of broadcast for children and young till 1968. The next part of the thesis discusses Main redaction for children and young between 1973 and 1984 - its composition, creation and feedback from audience. But the main topic of the thesis is the Television Youth Club. It observes its formation and evolution, analyzes topics of program and their ideology. It stops at the creative team, traces audience feedback as well as evaluation from higher authorities and elimination of some members of the team. On this program thesis wants to show how the programs were created in Czechoslovak television and what atmosphere was there. And it tries to disprove that in Czechoslovak television were created only poor-quality and superficial ideological works in that period. It has always depended on team of people - how they deal with their task of program. Key words: Television Youth Club, Main redaction for children and young, journalism, programs for young, Czechoslovak television
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Local people's courts in district of Hradec Králové in years 1961-1969
Dvořáková, Kristýna ; Rákosník, Jakub (advisor) ; Pullmann, Michal (referee)
This thesis deals with the Local People's Courts, a part of judiciary in Czechoslovakia in sixties, focusing on these institutions in the district of Hradec Králové.The Local People's Courts evolved in the process of shaping the judiciary as a public affair, according to the communist ideology, which started after 1948. Therefore, Local Peopl's Courts were intended to combine characteristics of both social organisation and a government authority. The thesis is based on particularities of these institutions and approaches them as a conflict zone of various fields of interest, such as government, trade unions and jurist community. The focus of this thesis was not only to describe these institutions from the points of view of the applicatory legal norm, statutory provisions, instructions of responsible authorities, orders of the communist party and the opinions of lawyers, but also to observe them as a power instrument of a totalitarian regime and a ground for procuring various concerns.
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Genesis of the Belarussian National Identity (1863-1958)
Linitskaya, Natallia ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor) ; Pullmann, Michal (referee)
The study follows the process of the construction of belarussian national identity between the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries in terms of community of name, language, territory and historical memories. This subjective foundation of a nation does not blend in the belarussian case with the civic model. Historical memory of Kalinovski's Uprising demonstrates the dubiousness of using a common historical past which itself corresponds with that of Russia and Poland. On the contrary, the allocating of belarussian national identity according to social demands was convinient. Unsuccesful vindication of the historical legacy of "Litva" and the failure of Belarussian to become the language of bureaucracy caused a decoupling of the genealogical bonds from the national identity. The longing of "tutejshi" for social happiness facilitated the appropriation of national identity as essentially a soviet one. Belarussians are becoming Belarussians as toiling people who are emancipated in a national state, deliniated by the colonial map. Keywords: Belarus, national identity, nationalism, national state, belorussification, «tutejshi»
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Jewish Minority in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia
Geussová, Hana ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Čapková, Kateřina (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to reconstruct the living and position of the Jewish minority of Czechoslovakia in 1968-1989. The thesis focuses on outer display, i.e. achievements in cultural and religious life, inner organisation of the community, extent of participation of minority members in activities organized by Jewish bodies, and the related level of control over the community as well as individuals performed by the state authorities, and their intervention in community's inner matters. First part of the thesis specifies the monitored group and defines its structure and quantity. The description of the Jewish community's development from the end of war till 1968 follows. The main part of the thesis consists of the characteristics of relationships between the Jewish community and the state authorities and relationships existing within the Jewish community. It concentrates on the description of Jewish representatives bodies' role in relation to the Jewish minority as a whole and also on the description of activities performed by the Jewish community in the monitored period - the following parts focus on these in detail. The activities are those in cultural and social field as well as activities related to the Jewish religion. An individual chapter about Jewish youth groups is dedicated to working with young...
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The image of the American woman on TV screen in 1950's
Blažková, Michaela ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Vošahlíková, Pavla (referee)
The 1950s in the United States of America brought about not only political, economic and cultural changes, but also a social change on a massive scale. The way of perceiving men and women, their work, leisure and personal ambition, changed significantly. This change was influenced by further medical, sociological and psychological discoveries, but the crucial influence came from the movies and television. The middle of the 20th century was the time when mass media became a part of everyday family life and took a firm hold in the majority of American households. The entertainment industry became involved in forming the social reflection and became influenced by it in turn. Based on the analysis of selected products from the entertainment industry which represent a sample of differing approaches in film and television, this diploma thesis explores the depiction and reflection of the perception of the family, the depiction of women, childhood, the home, relationships etc. The thesis focuses on the reconstruction of interpersonal relationships in film and television, with the emphasis on the role of women, in the context of social development in the United States of America after the Second World War and in the 1950s.
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Street Politics. Student Protests in Prague 1962 - 1967
Polák, Michael ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Mervart, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with the genealogy of so-called "Strahov events", i.e. the protest of students from Strahov dormitories, which took place on October 31, 1967. The key question is why seemingly an insignificant event - a power outage - led to the collapse of the university organization of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth (ČSM). The thesis analyses the 1960s through optic of street politics, and examines manifestations of the particular student collectives that preceded the Strahov protest and which set up the implicit rules on how to enter the public space and what content it should bring in and how to avoid repressive reaction in the same time. In particular, it focuses on the majáles festival marches in 1965 and 1966 and the so- called Petřín incidents - the annual May Day clashes between the Public Security forces and the youth at Petřín hill. It helps to answer related questions: how these collectives influenced the origin, course and consequences of the Strahov demonstration. In addition, the thesis focuses on the process of creation of student social movement. It examines what the students expected in the 1960s, what was the purpose of their criticism and how their criticism was influenced by the context social transformations that took place in the state-socialist Czechoslovakia in the...
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History of the Catholic Church in Usti nad Orlici 1948-1963 and the Decane Vaclav Bostik in his Struggle with the Communst Regime
Sklenář, Michal ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Cuhra, Jaroslav (referee)
8 Abstract The thesis follows history of the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia in the 50's of the 20th century. It aims for a micro-historical approach to the problematics. The example of Václav Boštík, dean in Ústí nad Orlicí in years 1934 - 1942 and again in 1945 - 1961, captures both everyday life of the Church in the Stalin and Post-Stalin Era of the Czechoslovakian history and the strategies for survival in this very difficult time of the Church. The work analyzes situations, in which dean Boštík found himself in the 50's, and the decisions he chose or was made to choose. According to what measures he decided? When was he ready for compromise with the Communist Party and, on the contrary, when he stood firm on his opinions? How did his attitudes influenced the life of his parish? When was a conflict between parishioners and the Communist Party unavoidable and, on the other hand, when interests happened to concourse and a mutual coexistence was possible? Why did not revocation of dean Boštík come until 1961? Key words 20th century, History of Communism, Roman Catholic Church, Ústí nad Orlicí, Václav Boštík (1897 - 1963)
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Ideological Influencing in the Czechoslovak Children's Magazines of the 1970s
Vondráčková, Kateřina ; Rákosník, Jakub (advisor) ; Pullmann, Michal (referee)
(in English): The aim of this thesis is to characterize ideological influence on the Mateřídouška magazine's pages in years between 1969-1979. The stress is laid down on the reader and their right to have a proper childhood in the period of so-called "normalization". I tried to solve the problem by analysing the previous evolution of the magazine and a consecutive analysis of given period's selected volumes. The research did show that Mateřídouška does place a great stress on tradition and it is necessary to evaluate it as a whole unit. Despite the outstanding return to the real socialism the ideology does assume a specific form. On the basis of discovered facts we can characterize this form in a more precise way and present a picture that children could have seen and read on the pages of Mateřídouška. Klíčová slova (anglicky): Czechoslovakia, social history, period of normalization, propaganda, ideology, children's magazine, Mateřídouška, fairy tale, childhood
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The Origins of Consumer Society in Czechoslovakia 1945-1970 Trade, Consumption and Advertising
Táborský, Ondřej ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Pullmann, Michal (referee) ; Rákosník, Jakub (referee)
Dissertation "The Origins of the Mass Consumption Society in Czechoslovakia 1945-1970. Trade, Consumption and Advertising" deals with the process of establishing consumption as a new category of human life in the communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia. Through the analysis of the discourse the author shows how a network of specialized institutions and professionals producing thinking about consumption emerged in the milieu of the Ministry of Internal Trade. This network manifested itself in the planning of the trade infrastructure and in the adoption of a more subtle approach to the problem of consumption in an effort to maintain the legitimacy of the communist rule. The commerce as a sphere of economy was in the communist discourse initially reduced to the transmission lever between production and the consumer. This perception was accompanied by the pursuit of the social justice through the transformation of the consumer's experience, underpinned by a strong moral appeal. The key tools used in this process were the democratization of the access to the goods, the attempts to adapt the services to broad sections of the society, the chance given to the consumers to raise their own demands and also the "new language" of the trade practices. Political thaw after Stalin's death led to the...
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Images of Enemies: Memory, Economy and Crime
Slačálek, Ondřej ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee) ; Pullmann, Michal (referee)
The thesis deals with two images of the key "Others" in the Czech Republic in the second decade of its existence: communists and Romanies. It shows the characteristics that have been attributed to them, points out the attributes that were constructed as a threat, and informs about power relations into which they have been placed against the rest of society. The aim of the thesis is to show on what values society is constructed in discourses which create various forms of exclusion of these "Others". The introductory chapter summarizes the Czech relationship to the "Others": Germans, Russians, and Slovaks in the form of interpretative looks into key authors (especially Palacký, Kundera, and Pithart) Next chapter focuses on methodology and introduces the starting points of the analysis in the critical discourse analysis (especially Van Dijk, Wodak and Jäger) and in the foucaultian discourse analysis (especially Hansen). These starting points are combined with the concept of moral panic which is introduced in the third chapter which also discusses its problematic places. Analytical chapters are devoted to the election of president Václav Klaus and they also discuss the role of communists (February - June 2003) and society's reactions to ethnically contextualized violence in Šluknov Hook. They...
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