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The Genealogy of the Plzeň Revolt on June 1, 1953: An Analysis of Public Collective Protests of the Plzeň City Population in the Years 1948-1953
 Šlouf, Jakub ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Kopeček, Michal (referee) ; Křesťan, Jiří (referee)
The presented dissertation thesis analyzes one of the largest protests of the Czechoslovak Stalinism-era - the Plze revolt against the currency reform in June 1953. From a conceptual perspective, the work draws on the theory of the so-called new social movements. Therefore it sets the well-known Plze incident into the context of previous protest actions that occurred in the Plze region in the course of the years 1948-1953. This method enables the author to chart the development of several varied protest cultures which had been employed in particular parts of society in Western Bohemia on a long term basis and which inspired the inception and the course of the Plze revolt in the year 1953. This way the work offers not only a considerably more precise critical description of the June protests but also their cultural genealogy. By the means of this genealogy the author reveals the structure of the main social movements that took part in the revolt and an associated complex of social conflicts that caused the protests. There were in particular the following three: a socially-motivated strike movement of industrial blue-collars, a pro-western movement of both student and blue-collar youth and a latent tension within the communist party which was becoming evident through a passive resistance of its rank...
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Influence of Currency Reform on Czechoslovak Economy in the Fifties of the 20th Century
 Slanař, Jan ; Szobi, Pavel (advisor) ; Chalupecký, Petr (referee)
Currency reform performed at june 1953 represented important landmark in economic and social development of Czechoslovak republic. In this thesis is elaborated developement of these areas especially by form of comparison and description, whose goal is to point out to changing development of mentioned areas in the course of the fifties. The thesis is divided into three main chapters, that solve the issue chronologically starting on year 1948 to the performance of the reform, thereafter the reform itself is solved and subseqvently developement is elaborated from 1953 to the end of the decade. Result shows hard impact of the reform on inhabitants and simultaneously remediation of economy, that enabled higher growth of standard of living conditioned by realization of less ideologically radical approaches in developement of economy.
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