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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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Cyrill Dušek 1881-1924
Junková, Veronika ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Šedivý, Ivan (referee)
The bachelor thesis Cyrill Dušek 1881-1924. In the magazine Čas and the resistance movement Maffie is a biography based on accessible published sources, literature and particularly the rich and almost unused archival material from the inheritance fund of Cyrill Dušek. The focus of the thesis is to depict Dušek's editorial and public activities in the period before World War I, and during the World War I, which is its principal period of focus. The aim of the thesis is a detailed overview of Cyrill Dušek's work for the resistance movement Maffie and particularly his involvement in the so called button affair (knoflíková aféra), which influenced his further fate in the war. On the margins the thesis also shows Dušek's life after the war, which was influenced by his acquaintances and experience from the magazine Čas and the resistance movement Maffie. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Transformation of the st. Wenceslas symbol and cult in Czech press around the breaking points of the Czech 20th century history
Joura, Adam ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Maslowski, Nicolas (referee)
The thesis deal with transformations of st. Wenceslas symbol and his cult in the Czech press around breaking points of Czech 20th century history. It asks about impact of contemporary policy and incidents on presentation of st. Wenceslas symbol, then about parts of st. Wenceslas cult and finally about connection of this symbol with other national symbols. The thesis is based on the assumtion that national identity is constructed through collective memory of members of the nation, appropriate symbology and history interpretation. Research uses qualitative metods (discourse analysis). Sample is made of Czech (mostly) statewide press articles that are related to st. Wenceslas and his cult, from the period around the st. Wenceslas day (28th September), in several years intervals around appointed breaking points (1918, 1938, 1939, 1945, 1948, 1968 and 1989). It has been found that 1. st. Wenceslas symbol represents unchanging connection of the church and the nation in the case of Catholic perspective, 2. in danger it mobilizes and symbolizes the statehood and the strength of the nation in case of the nationalistic use and 3. it can support legitimity of new established regime. The national symbology is connected with some conservative and nationalistic approach, st. Wenceslas symbol also with religion,...
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