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Remembering Easter Rising
Reiterová, Martina ; Činátl, Kamil (advisor) ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (referee)
5 Abstract The bachelor thesis focuses on the official policy of remembering the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916. The attention concentrates on the political representatives of the Irish Free State and Irish Republic from 1922 to 2006 and their attitude towards commemorations of the Easter Rising. The topic is elaborated using mainly English secondary sources and also some primary sources like political documents and videos. Regarding the methodology, the so-called collective memory concept is used, especially the lieux de mémoire method by Pierre Nora. The thesis examines the basic factors influencing the Irish representatives' attitude towards the Easter commemorations. Simultaneously, the paper analyses the means used by the Irish representatives to influence the people's commemorative practises. Key words Easter Rising, Dublin, commemoration, Irish Republic, Irish Free State, memorial, remembering, 1916
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The Image of Czechoslovakia in the British Communist Press 1966-1969
Vlasáková, Magdalena ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (advisor) ; Geaney, Kathleen Brenda (referee)
(in English): This bachelor thesis is focused on reaction of British communists to events in Czechoslovakia in the second half of sixties. The biggest attention is dedicated to the reform year of 1968. This image is reconstructed with the analysis of the party's newspaper Morning Star in period of 1966-1969. Thesis involves chapters about the evolution of British communism, British newspaper's culture and British relations toward the countries of Eastern Bloc - especially toward Czechoslovakia. Detailed analysis of newspaper's articles regarding Czechoslovak themes in Morning Star is likewise part of this thesis. The analysis aim is to illustrate the interest in Czechoslovakia in the British communist environment and to contribute to a broader research on the Western communism.
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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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Remember the Bombs: Memory of the Belgrade Bombings from the Second World War from 1995 until 2003
Puškarov, Katarina ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (advisor) ; Daniel, Ondřej (referee)
This study explores the usage of the memory of the bombings of Belgrade from WWII in the time period of Yugoslavia from 1995 until 2003. Considering that Belgrade was bombed by two opposing forces during WWII, once by Nazis in 1941, and the second time by the Allies in 1944, and due to the fact that the exploitation of memory of the two bombings was rather unequal during the Socialist Yugoslavia with the latter bombings being a taboo theme, I was interested in answering following questions: how the two memories were used in the times before, during and after the NATO Air Strikes of Yugoslavia, if the memory of the Allied bombings emerged in the public sphere and how it coexists with the one of the Nazi bombings. My primary sources are articles from "Politika" newspaper issues from commemoration dates during the research time frame from 1995 until 2003. The final conclusion shows the dominant usage of the memory of the Nazi bombings throughout the whole time frame even though we could witness the emergence of the memory of the Allied bombings.
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The historical symbolism in the education literature of Czechoslovak Legions
Purkert, Jan ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (advisor) ; Ira, Jaroslav (referee)
This bachelor's thesis contains an analysis of various modes of utilization of historical themes in educational literature, which was produced by Legionnaires, in the context of Legionnaire movement. The goal is to detect how and which motives are employed by Legionnaires for construction of their identity and explication of the context of their movement within the national history. The method of achieving this goal is to survey the distribution of historical themes among various types of titles. The results serve as a basis for setting the historical symbolism into the context of social life of legionnaires in the interwar period and for detection of factors, which determined its formulation with comparison of differences of usage between authors with different political convictions. The first section contains interpretation of the development of the Legionnaire movement in the wartime in relation to historical motives, the second in the interwar period in the context of production of legionnaire literature. The third section describes the content of historical symbolism.
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The Reflection of Albania in the Czechoslovakian Environment of the Years 1948- 1962
Bártl, Zdeněk ; Pelikán, Jan (advisor) ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (referee)
BÁRTL, ZDENĚK. The Reflection of Albania in the Czechoslovakian Environment of the Years 1948 - 1962. Praha: Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, 2014, 86 pp. Diploma Thesis. This diploma thesis analyses the way how the Czechoslovakian print media reflected events in Albania in the years 1948 - 1962. It studies public knowledge based on the print media about political events, international relationship, economic situation, life and development in Albanian society. The chronological framework starts on alliance between Enver Hoxha regime and Czechoslovakia and ends with the first months after the real severance of all links between Albania and the Soviet Union bloc. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first, a general part, offers basic geographical information and a brief summary of Albanian history. The second part, more extensive, elaborates the key topic which means the reflection of Albania in the Czechoslovakian environment. Particular units follow up selected sphere or events which the print media dedicated the major attention in the years 1948-1962.
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The Czechoslovakia-Iranian relationships. Political and cultural relationships between 1953 and 1979.
Nováková, Klára ; Tumis, Stanislav (advisor) ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (referee)
The thesis discusses Czechoslovak-Iranian relationships during 1953-1979. Several thematically organized chapters deal with policy and diplomatic relations after the fall of Mosaddeq in 1953, the support of Tudeh party, cultural relations and intelligence activities of above mentioned countries. Relationships between them had been cooled after the beginning of the communist era in Czechoslovakia and it got worse after the Mosaddeq overthrow - mostly due to Czechoslovakian support of persecuted Iranian Tudeh party. However, due to Czechoslovakian business opportunities in Iran, the relations from the 1960 improved and led to the state visits in the 1970. Nevertheless, as well as with other countries, nearly all dealings were interrupted after the Islamic revolution in 1979. The thesis is primarily based on archive sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The National Archive, and The Security Forces Archive as well as on a professional literature. This diploma thesis brings new historical evidence in the area of Czechoslovak-Iranian relationships through processing, for the time being, almost unexplored topic of Czechoslovakian diplomacy and relations with Iran.
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Yugoslavia at the crossroads. Reflection of the Yugoslav press in the beginning of 1990
Moskovič, Boris ; Pelikán, Jan (advisor) ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (referee)
Thesis analyzes activity of two daily newspapers of Yugoslavia, namely zagrebian Vjesnik and belgradian Politika at the beggining of the year 1990 before SFRY desintegrated. It outlines stance that these periodics adpoted on three selected events and problems prevailing in January 1990 on yugoslavian political and social scene. Among them are economical reforms started by federation prime minister Ante Marković, the rise of croatian and serbian nationalism during assembly of HDZ and SNO parties and dissolution of the Communist League of Yugoslavia at its 14th Congress. All these events are put into context of domestic politics development of Yugoslavian Federation. Keywords: press, reflection, Yugoslavia, Communist Party, economic reform
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