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State in the process of coming to terms with the communist past - comparison of the Czech and Slovak Republics' approach to the creation of a legislative and institutional basis
Bernášková Chňupová, Soňa ; Kocian, Jiří (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
The Bachelor thesis is concerned with the issue of coming to terms with the communist past in Czechoslovakia after 1989, subsequently in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, focusing on the politics of history and the politics of memory. In the introduction to the problem, the thesis defines the key terms and concerns both different attitudes to dealing with a previous non-democratic regime in the countries of former Soviet bloc, and main factors influencing the different types of approaches to transitional justice. Being focused on a set of policy measures adopted by authorities, the thesis also examines how the rhetorical dimension, judicial dimension and the issue of lustration have been handled in post- communist Czechoslovakia and its successor states. The last chapter draws a comparison between the Czech and Slovak politics of memory, while focusing on the foundation of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the Nation's Memory Institute.
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Lustration as a tool of political differentiaton in Czechoslovakia. Discourse analysis
Jírů, Veronika ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
The topic of this piece of work is lustrations in Czechoslovakia, or more precisely a discourse on this issue, which was carried on the ground of the Federal Assembly (FS) of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic (CSFR) in 1991. The piece of work combines methods of a discourse analysis and an analysis of the political and historical background, where the discussion unfolded. The bases for the analysis are the stenographic entries of the FS of Czechoslovakia from January to August 1991, the period from the start of negotiations of the lustrations of the deputies of FS themselves, up until the adoption of the lustration law. For the purpose of conducting a detailed study, a narrower corpus was compiled, containing utterances of the main participants of the period. Selection of the participants was conducted according to a key that strives for taking into account the partisan, ideological and personal plurality of opinions of the former Federal Assembly. The aim of this piece of work is to document in compliance with the particular utterances both the development, or more precisely the emergence of the discourse of this issue, and the nascent of the political identities, which at that time (not only) due to the lustrations, were constituted.
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