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The Munich Agreement 1938 in the memoirs of contemporaries
Tomeš, Josef ; Vašek, Richard
The publication deals with the topic of Munich 1938 and its reflection in the historical mind of the Czech and Slovak society. It gives a basic overview of the hitherto memoir production of Czechoslovak and foreign provenience, reflecting the events of the fatal year of 1938. It focuses especifically on yet unpublished memoirs of Czech and Slovak authors.
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By Invitation of Masaryk Institute. 5
Broklová, Eva ; Pehr, Michal ; Vašek, Richard
This collection includes papers from workshops "Elections 1946: illusion and reality" and "The Czech political right wing and the crisis of democracy in the 1930s" which were given in Prague in 2006 as a part of workshops entitled By Invitation of Masaryk Institute. Some papers focus on the first elections in post-war Czechoslovakia (pre-election campaign; situation in Slovakia; election results, etc.); the second half of papers discusses issues connected with the Czech political right and the crisis of democracy in the 1930s (acitivities of Czech Agrarian Party, Czech People´s Party, Czech National Democracy and also views of journalist Karel Horký).
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Agrarian Party and the Democracy (Probe)
Broklová, Eva
A part of historical literature (prior 1989 as well as after 1989) overestimates the rightist character of the Agrarian Party in the political system of the first Republic. Consequently, such literature considers this system as having significant authoritarian potencials. It interprets certain degree of antagonism between the Right and the Left, between the city and the country, the idustry and agriculture as conflicts between fascist orientation and the democratic forces. The essay is also concerned with the relationships between the Agrarian Party and President Beneš. On the basis of archival sources it shows that Edvard Beneš counted with the existence of a reformed Agrarian Party after the World War II. It was excluded from the system of political parties by competing political parties of National Front.
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Elections and the experience of recent past
Tomeš, Josef
Thought over the influence of Munich traumatic experience, experience of German occupation and the World War II on gaining the dominance of the Left in the Czech political life after 1945 and on election results in May 1945.
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Electoral Laws and Election 1946
Broklová, Eva
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship means the difference between the possibility to change the political regime by elections or by a violent means. In elections 1946 a princip of proportional representation, combined with fixed candidates list, was applied. The electoral law enfranchised citizen from the age of 18, and included armed forces and later, members of the Police forces. Representatives of political parties decided that the Agrarian Party was not to be renewed. The elections took place six months later than originally planned. Lists of electors included only Czech and Slovak citizens or other citizens of Slavic origin. The electoral success of the Communist Party was assisted also by the enormous contribution of the Soviet Union to the liquidation of Nazism as well as by the fact, that the Land Office, distributing land in border areas, was in the hands of the Communists.
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