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History of the monument to Vojtěch Lanna in Č. Budějovice and its arthistorical evaluation
NĚMEČEK, Martin
This thesis follows the genesis of the Adalbert Lanna the Elder monument between the years 1866 and 1879 and futher development including its destruction in 1945 and reinstallment in 1993. It aims to describe the monument's place in the broader context of European monument building, the activities of Imperial royal artistic foundry in Wieden and the careers of its key figures. The thesis contains iconographic description and interpretation of the monument's components and their comparison. It presents evidence of period reception and above all else attempts to answer the question of why was one of the few public monuments dedicated to businessmen and industrialists revealed as early as 1879 in Budweis of all places.
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Personality Cult in Turkmenistan 1991-2006
Purkertová, Eliška ; Šír, Jan (advisor) ; Horák, Slavomír (referee)
This case study discusses the role of Turkmen president Saparmurat Turkmenbashi's personality cult as a part of Turkmen totalitarian ideology. The work's scope is restricted by a time period beginning with the country's declaration of independence in 1991 and ending by president's death in 2006. The work analyses the manner the personality cult served the president to keep his power. It builds upon a thesis that personality cult is a defining feature of Turkmen totalitarianism. Using empirical analysis, the author attempts to analyze the effects of the personality cult on the society and daily life in Turkmenistan and tries to clarify the mechanisms of political power and the position of the personality cult within the regime. The cult marks many aspects of daily life in Turkmenistan - politics, society, architecture, culture, media and even the schooling system and history interpretation.
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Czechoslovakia under communist totalitarianism in film and series and their use for education
Nedbal, Václav ; Mikeska, Tomáš (advisor) ; Parkan, František (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the appropriate and effective use of film and serial adaptations of topics falling into the period of communist totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia (that is between 1948 and 1989, with emphasis on the period 1948-1969). The thesis is divided into four chapters, whereas the main part, which is didactic, is described in the third and fourth chapter. The first chapter describes the basic historical context of the communist government in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989. It also shows and explains the origin of the idea of communism, the further development of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia during the First Republic, and the postwar Third Republic. This chapter was put together using found edited sources and secondary literature. The second chapter deals with individual film and serial processing of topics related to the period. It presents specific films and series which were produced in the most recent years (or the post-revolutionary period), but also materials produced during the totalitarianism before 1989. In this chapter some works are discussed in greater detail, others are presented as selected alternative options for interaction for educational purposes. The third chapter summarizes the didactic and historical potential of the discussed topic, it also...
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Visual Propaganda of Kim Jong-un
Zangová, Clara ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on the content analysis of photographs of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The aims of the thesis are to designate the means of visual propaganda used by Kim Jong-un, to describe how the DPRK is presented through photographs, and to try to compare these tools with the propaganda and the political communication of the great dictators of the 20th century - Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Zedong. The content of the thesis is a brief overview of the modern North Korean history and a description of the country's actual situation, including the specifics of local propaganda. Further follows the determination of propaganda itself according to several theories, and a description of propaganda tools of the aforementioned leaders. The crucial part of the thesis is the content analysis of the photographs of Kim Jong-un published from June 2018 to February 2019, during the interval between two summits hosting Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump. The analytical part is amended with the exposition of the personality profile of the leader.
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The specific development of Yugoslavia after the Second World War and different views of self-governing socialism
Tylová, Kateřina ; Šístek, František (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the specific development of post-war Yugoslavia, especially about self-governing socialism which can be considered as finding the new way of socialism. This issue is closely related with historical context of post-war development. Thanks to the conflict with Soviet Union the need of settling new political system could be the way of better fitting socialism. The status of Yugoslavia was considerably more complicating due to exclusion of the Soviet sphere, however, it was a new opportunity. The aim of the thesis is to clarify how the self-governing system worked and why it was introduced. For a comprehensive view of self-government, different views on this system have been added. The first chapter deals with the historical context in Yugoslavia and the theory of the self-governing system. The second chapter deals with different views of self-governing socialism. This chapter is subdivided into other subchapters, divided by time - between the regime's theorists and historians (experts who evaluate the system with time and with the fact that it is not directly incorporated into it). The chapter with the view of historians is further divided into period historians (written in the time of the functioning of the self-governing system) and contemporary (opinions that are...
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Cult of personality and children's reader. The image of communist functionaries in magazines for children from 1948 to 1955
Hlaváčková, Alexandra ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
(in English): This bachelor's thesis is focused on the manifestations of the cult of communist functionaries in Czechoslovakia between years 1948 and 1955, specifically on the cult of personality in children's magazines (Jiskry, Vlaštovička, Mateřídouška, Ohníček, Pionýr, Pionýrské noviny, Práce pionýrů). The thesis is namely about Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Klement Gottwald, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Antonín Zápotocký and Zdeněk Nejedlý. The author used discourse analysis as a method. The research deals with the image of these individuals, with the facts of their lives that are presented as significant. The analysis points out attributes ascribed to these historical figures; there is sameness, but on the other hand there are also distinctions in the way of representing these politicians.
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Social and political functions of poetry in media communication
Knéblová, Michaela ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Batistová, Anna (referee)
The thesis examines the role of poetry from the official Czechoslovak Communist Party newspaper Rudé právo ("Red Law") between 1948 and 1953. It analyzes and interprets selected poetry in the context of major holidays and events, and uses this to describe some of the myths of the time and their symbolic meaning. Using essays and public speeches from thematic conferences and congresses, it describes the development of poetry and journalism in this crucial historical period as well as examines their role and mission. This is used to report on socialist realism in literature and provide testimonies of prominent political and cultural figures of the time on literature, poetry, and journalism. Furthermore, it shows how the front pages of Rudé právo were designed on special occasions and what some of the texts contained. The thesis also introduces the most important socialist holidays, explains their context, and opens up the issue of the societal role of them and the way they are presented. Finally, the thesis also contains information on the the "Pracující do literatury" ("Workers for Literature") campaign. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Ivan Hlinka and creating a cult of personality in the media during the success in Nagano and after his tragic death.
Hejda, Matěj ; Zamazal, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
My diploma thesis is dedicated to the problem of creating a cult of personality around ice hockey coach Ivan Hlinka. It is focused on two key periods: The first is the victory of the Czech ice hockey team at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in February 1998 , the second is the period after Hlinka's tragic death in August 2004. The aim of the thesis is to analyze how much media influence the creation of a cult of personality by reporting about these two events. Objects of interest of my thesis are the process that puts a coach almost into the role of national hero . The second aspect of the work is the tabloidization of the topic such as a tragic accident and subsequent Hlinka's death. The thesis defines a cult of personality generaly and also from a historical perspective and adds the most famous reprsentative of cult of personality - Soviet dictator Josif Vissarionovich Stalin. In addition, it is dedicated to the cult of personality of athletes in general. This thesis not only presents Ivan Hlinka from a hockey standpoint, but mentions also his personality through a conversation with his longtime friend Josef Beránek sr. The final analysis is devoted to the representation of Ivan Hlinka in two specific print media during the two selected periods.
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