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The role of political symbols of the Slovak interwar state in 2023 Slovak elections
Bartovská, Barbora ; Guasti, Petra (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the political symbols of the Slovak state, their role, and their use by the far-right parties in the election campaign in the early parliamentary election in the year 2023 in Slovakia. The first part of the thesis contains a summary of the current state of knowledge of the far right, political memory and symbolism, Slovak state, and clerofascism, and ends with a brief outline of political development in Slovakia until May 2023. The second part deals with the operationalization of symbols and selection of the studied political parties, thus creating a case study, which is analyzed in the next section. The analysis itself takes place in the visual and content form in the parties' election programs, billboards, websites, and selected web articles. It concludes with a summary of the analysis results and findings. The thesis aims to answer the question: what role do the political symbols of the Slovak state play in the hands of the far-right Slovak political parties in the early parliamentary elections in 2023 in Slovakia?
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Štefan Polakovič and Slovak Political Catholicism
Lenčéšová, Michaela ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Šmíd, Marek (referee) ; Šebek, Jaroslav (referee)
The dissertation explores the political thinking of the Catholic philosopher Štefan Polakovič (1912-1999), who is considered one of the main ideologists of Jozef Tiso's politics during the Slovak state (1939-1945). In the context of the political struggle between President Tiso and Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka, Polakovič participated in the Nazification of Slovak Catholic political thinking by creating Slovak and Catholic concepts inspired by the ideology of the German National Socialists. After the Second World War, from Argentina, he tried to achieve the restoration of the Slovak state and in the 1990s he was one of the apologists of Jozef Tiso's politics and a supporter of the idea of the anti-fascist Catholic resistance in the milieu of the Hlinka Slovak People's Party. The main aim of this dissertation is to investigate, what were the main reasons for Polakovič's fascism and why he considered the nation-state as the only acceptable form of statehood for the Slovak nation. Although the dissertation concentrates mainly on Polakovic's thinking during the Slovak state period, it also pays attention to Polakovič's thinking during Argentine emigration in an attempt to reflect the development of his thinking throughout the twentieth century. First, this dissertation describes the birth and history of...
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Forms of the national myth: Slovak painting of the 30's and during World War II
Beličáková, Viktória ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Klimešová, Marie (referee)
This Bachelor thesis Forms of the national myth: Slovak painting of the 30's and during WWII is focused on the issue of creating Slovak myth in painting in the interwar period with an emphasis on 1930's and World War II, when the national style culminated and afterwards transformed in the time of the first Slovak state. The aim of this work is overview of development process of national myth with emphasis on key figures and description of its different forms and influences. Alongside is this work focused on description of the main topics that Slovak myth include and highlight their meanings.
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Critical response to Ladislav Grosman's The Shop on Main Street and its film adaptation
Dobiašovský, Záviš ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the Ladislav Grosman's novel Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street) and its film adaptation by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. Given the topic, the theoretical part focuses on the historical events of the establishment of the Slovak state and the repression of the Jewish population. The thesis then interferes with the context of Czechoslovakian war literature and cinematography in the 1960s and introduces the author of the novel Ladislav Grossman and a creative couple of directors Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. The empirical part of the thesis analyzes the critical response to the novel and the film adaptation in the periodical press in the context of Czechoslovakian culture. The empirical part also includes selected critical reactions in the period after the Velvet revolution in 1989. The critical texts and reviews were chosen from the printed culturally oriented periodicals and attachments of the daily press between 1965-1970 and subsequently after 1989.
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HSLS-SSNJ Ideology
Novotná, Lucia ; Kubátová, Hana (advisor) ; Franěk, Jakub (referee)
Aim of this thesis is to fill in an empty place in the area of scholarly research of the ideology of Hlinka's Slovak People's Party. This thesis offers thorough insight to the ideology of the party to which the clarification of the circumstances that led to the creation of the Slovak republic and approach to the party and its internal division into conservative and radical wings is first needed. Because of the ideological aspect of the primary source, the thesis takes critical stand while working with the literature. At the beginning of this thesis, emphasis is put on explanation of contradictory character of the period from 1939-1945 that marked the existence of Slovak republic. Explanation of the selection of the thesis'theme is supported by this. The core of this thesis is based on theoretical definiton of the word ideology according to various political scientists and then analysis of Štefan Polakovič's view of ideological principles of Slovak republic follows. Ideas of the press body of Slovak republic, Slovák, are included in the thesis as well. View on whether these ideological principles were followed by the party and whether the internal and foreign politics of the party was infuenced by them is offered. Last but not least, the thesis explains the relevance of this theme in relation to current...
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Forms of the national myth: Slovak painting of the 30's and during World War II
Beličáková, Viktória ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Klimešová, Marie (referee)
This Bachelor thesis Forms of the national myth: Slovak painting of the 30's and during WWII is focused on the issue of creating Slovak myth in painting in the interwar period with an emphasis on 1930's and World War II, when the national style culminated and afterwards transformed in the time of the first Slovak state. The aim of this work is overview of development process of national myth with emphasis on key figures and description of its different forms and influences. Alongside is this work focused on description of the main topics that Slovak myth include and highlight their meanings.
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Influence of the National Socialist regime on the aryanizations in the Czech lands and in Sovakia during the Second World War.
Palkosková, Kristýna ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with anti-Jewish measurements in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and in the Slovak Republic during the Second World War. It analyses the relationship between the German Empire and two successors on the area of the Czech-Slovak Republic. The thesis aims to discover relationship between internal structure of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic and anti-Jewish measurements, which were implemented by national political representations or they were ruled by the Nazi Germany. In the case of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic the implementation of these measurements was combination of the initiative from national political representations and the influence of the German Empire.
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Slovak Anti-Jewish Legislation in the Years 1938 - 45 and its Application in Practice
Paleček, Lukáš ; Kuklík, Jan (advisor) ; Kindl, Vladimír (referee)
Although the Holocaust (a word for suffering of millions of individual people of vastness that stretches beyond our imagination) is a rather distressing topic I chose to carry out this re- search for two reasons, which prevailed. First, the experience shows that extreme situations reveal many latent features of human psyche - studying them is tempting. Second, the Holo- caust is a morally and politically important and still topical theme because not forgetting evil is a manner of its prevention. The purpose of my thesis is to analyse anti-Jewish law (and briefly also anti-Gypsies law) in Slovakia in the years 1938-45 and to present the idea that the tragedy of the Holocaust did not merely have causes, which can be described as political or economic or exclusively psychiat- ric (which is perhaps the most dangerous simplification), but that a significant part of what happened is explainable from the point of view of social psychology. To integrate researches in the two aforementioned scientific disciplines (legal history and so- cial psychology) in a coherent unit I chose to use the Czech penal law's concept of elements of crime. There are five elements of crime and my thesis consists of five chapters with accord- ing titles: Object of the Holocaust, Objective aspect of the Holocaust, Subject of the...
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Slovak Republic (1939-1945) in Typology of Non-Democratic Regimes
Zabuďková, Miriam ; Doubek, Vratislav (advisor) ; Buben, Radek (referee)
The purpose of this diploma thesis is to cathegorize the Slovak Republic (1938-1945) in the non-democratic regimes typology, primarily with regard to theories of Fascism and regimes in the "grey zone" between Fascism and Authoritarianism. The thesis explains the dynamics of Fascisation in Europe in the mid-war period, and places the Slovak Republic to this context of "the Fascist era". In the practical part, it will be dealt with divisions of the regime internally and in the Hlinka's Slovak People's Party. Based on this, the Slovak regime will be defined as Parafascist. Keywords Fascism; (First) Slovak Republic; Slovak State; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party; Para- Fascism; Hlinka Guard; Jozef Tiso; Alexander Mach
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