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The Atmosphere in the Czech and Slovak Society after the Breakup of the Czechoslovakia: The Event in the Context of Comments in the Broadcasting of the Czech and Slovak Radio (1.1.-31.12.1993)
Kobrlová, Eva ; Lovaš, Karol (advisor) ; Maršík, Josef (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to convey the atmosphere in the Czech and Slovak society at the time of the Breakup of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. For this purpose, comments broadcasted by Czechoslovak Radio, Czech Radio respectively, and Slovak Radio were analyzed. The author collected all such comments connected with the breakup of Czechoslovakia between the 1st of July, 1992, and the 31st of December, 1993, regardless of whether these comments focused on the defense, criticism, causes, or consequences of this event. For the analysis itself, the method of analytic induction was used. To put the issue into a broader context, the analysis itself is preceded by a brief overview of events related to the breakup of Czechoslovakia in the period under review. The overview is followed by a description of how the event was perceived by Vladimir Mečiar and Václav Klaus, leaders of the two most powerful political parties in Czechoslovakia at that time and, therefore, the main figures of the breakup. The description is based on their publications and social outputs. To give an insight into the atmosphere mainly in the media under review but also into the atmosphere in the Czech and Slovak society, the perspective of Anna Sámelová and Jan Pokorný, journalists working in the mentioned media at that time,...
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