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The fate of Zdeněk Fierlinger after the February Coup
Sedmíková, Kateřina ; Šindelář, Jan (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on Zdeněk Fierlinger and his life and is divided into two parts. The first part of the thesis focuses on his youth, work in the diplomatic services, servis to legions, fate during the Second World War and shortly after it. The first part of the thesis is about important events in the life of Zdeněk Fierlinger, due to which he was directed to the services of the communists in Czechoslovakia, enforced in February 1948. The second part of the thesis deals with the life of Zdeněk Fierlinger after 1948. This main section is focused on his overall political activity in high party positions, and above all on Zdeněk Fierlinger's contribution to building the communist regime. It is based on source research, selected professional literature and additional sources, which are mainly oral history interviews, contemporary press, university theses and internet sources. The aim of the work is therefore to comprehensively process the life of Zdeněk Fierlinger, focusing on the events that shaped his legacy today, i.e. especially on the events after 1948. KEYWORDS Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party, Communist Czechoslovakia, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, February Coup in 1948, Czechoslovak diplomacy
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"Despite All the Poet Kept Singing..." A Contribution to a Study Dealing with the State Security Police Forces᾽ Approach to Our Folk Scene, as Seen on the Example of Karel Kryl
Stehlíková, Veronika ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the State security police forces᾽ approach to Czech folk scene. The first part consists of Karel Kryl᾽s biography, great emphasis is placed also on his literary work. The second part discusses the folk scene in Czechoslovakia from 60s to 80s, including the State security police forces᾽ approach. Specifically not only Karel Kryl but also Jiří Pallas, Jaroslav Hutka, Vlastimil Třešňák and Vladimír Merta are presented based on the materials kept in the Security Services Archive. The thesis shows that the State security police forces᾽ approach was not unified, even though some common things can be found. In case of Karel Kryl living in exile the technique was reduced to intervention against his work. In case of the folk singers living at home State security police tried to reduce or completely terminate their public actions, most often doing so by controlling and cancelling their concerts. The main conclusion of the thesis is that they were not very successful at this effort, because most of their energy was devoted to persecuting the signatories of Charter 77. Strong actions were taken against the folk singers, who signed it as well. The contribution of this thesis is based on working with archival materials that practically have not yet been used in the specialized literature.
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The American Left and Communist Czechoslovakia, 1956-1968
Géryk, Jan ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Fojtek, Vít (referee)
The main aim of this work is to compare the discourses and analyze the relations of the American and Czechoslovak intellectual Left between 1956 and 1968. It begins by Khrushchev's revelation of Stalinist crimes and by the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 which created an atmosphere of disillusionment on the Left. The global Left of this period to a substantial extent ceased to be ideologically inspired by the Soviet Union and began to rethink the foundations of its thought. So, the 1960s are the period of the flourishing leftist thought. Authors are inspired by Marxist humanism and the New Left emerges, especially in the West. There were issues which existed beyond the ideological struggle of two Cold War blocs, but the different character of the regimes in the East and the West resulted in different approaches to these issues. At the same time, the mobility of ideas and their authors or supporters increased even across the Iron Curtain. Therefore, we could see some interesting encounters and clashes of different, even though still leftist, discourses. This work tries to depict the intellectual environment of the period by dealing with issues like philosophy of Man in the context of technological changes, the tactics of the struggle against the system or bureaucracy, the relation of...
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"Despite All the Poet Kept Singing..." A Contribution to a Study Dealing with the State Security Police Forces᾽ Approach to Our Folk Scene, as Seen on the Example of Karel Kryl
Stehlíková, Veronika ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the State security police forces᾽ approach to Czech folk scene. The first part consists of Karel Kryl᾽s biography, great emphasis is placed also on his literary work. The second part discusses the folk scene in Czechoslovakia from 60s to 80s, including the State security police forces᾽ approach. Specifically not only Karel Kryl but also Jiří Pallas, Jaroslav Hutka, Vlastimil Třešňák and Vladimír Merta are presented based on the materials kept in the Security Services Archive. The thesis shows that the State security police forces᾽ approach was not unified, even though some common things can be found. In case of Karel Kryl living in exile the technique was reduced to intervention against his work. In case of the folk singers living at home State security police tried to reduce or completely terminate their public actions, most often doing so by controlling and cancelling their concerts. The main conclusion of the thesis is that they were not very successful at this effort, because most of their energy was devoted to persecuting the signatories of Charter 77. Strong actions were taken against the folk singers, who signed it as well. The contribution of this thesis is based on working with archival materials that practically have not yet been used in the specialized literature.
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Obal Rozkoš Střížovice during the years 1966-1989
MÁTL, Michal
This bachelor´s work is focused on mapping the progress of economy of enterprise Obal Rozkoš in the village Střížovice laying near town Strmilov in former district Jindřichův Hradec from 1966 to 1989. In the other words it contains the era of communist rule since the zenith of unsuccessful tries to reform czechoslovak society, among other things even centrally planned economy, through the era of so-called normalization to the fall of regime in November 1989. To a large extent the time-span is influenced by character of archive materials firstly being more comprehensive between the years 1966-1989. As the main sources were used various enterprise ecomomical analyzis, company circular letters, director's announcements and his correspondence, photografical material and statements of witnesses, former workers, that are partly compared to the written sourcess. The work describes economy of the enterprise and problems connected with it, whose reasons finds especially in the common difficulties of centrally planned economy. The work also deals with social status of employees and describes their everyday life.
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