Course: History of Czechoslovakia

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Course title History of Czechoslovakia
Course code KHI/PBS45
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Rokoský Jaroslav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Czechoslovakia - various angles of viewing, professional literature, sources 2. The Czechoslovak state in Central Europe, the Austrian heritage - the national conditions in the Czechoslovak Republic 3. The Czechoslovak Constitutions, the Five, the Castle; the domestic political development of the Czechoslovak Republic - political parties 4. The economic and social development of the Czechoslovak Republic, the State and the Church, the position of women in and the cultural development of the Czechoslovak Republic 5. The Castle; the domestic political development of the Czechoslovak Republic - political parties 6. The Czechoslovak foreign policy and army 7. The Czechoslovak Republic - the 1930s (domestic developments) 8. Munich 1938 9. The Second Republic 10. The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 11. The domestic and foreign resistance - collaboration, Holocaust 12. The restoration of the Czechoslovak Republic 13. Post-war Czechoslovakia 14. The issue of nations in the Third Republic 15. International status and domestic political development in Czechoslovakia 16. The February 1948 - the Putsch completed 17. The communist Czechoslovakia - as part of the Soviet empire 18. The 1950s - political trials, repressions and unlawfulness 19. Exile, the third resistance and crisis upheavals 20. The way to the "Prague Spring" 21. The "Prague spring" 22. The communist "normalization"

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The first cycle of education focuses on political, economic, social and cultural developments during the period of the so-called First Republic in, what was then, Czechoslovakia, on the tragic character and inward inconsistency of the Second Republic and on the difficult period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The aim of the cycle is to provide general overview of the wide spectrum of the contemporary literature and the ability to incoporate the local development to a wider Central-Euroepan context. The students become familiar with various angles of viewing the development of the Czechoslovak state (Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, Ruthenians) as well as the transformations of the co-existence in a shared state. The subjects of exercises are selected by students according to their own interests, while dome preparation is followed by a discussion on a selected subject. "Academic disputes" among students and the effort at drawing oneself closer to the essence of the matter are very welcome. The second cycle focuses on the period which begins with the end of the Second World War, continues by the Cold War and climaxes with the collapse of the communist regimes. The aim here is to provide general overview of the wide spectrum of the contemporary issues, more detailed knowledge of professional literature and the ability to incoporate the Czech developments to the process of bolshevization of Central and Eastern Europe. This mainly concerns the transformations in the political, economic, social and cultural developments in the communist Czechoslovakia. The subjects of exercises are again selected by students themselves according to their own interests, while home preparation is followed by a discussion an a selected subject. "Academic disputes" among students and the effort at drawing oneself closer to the essence of the matter are again very welcome.
The graduates are able to critically evaluate the relevant professional literature and sources, are capable of formulating and advocating their won opinion in the individual discussions. They are at the same time orientated in the main issues of the given period even from the points of methodology and heuristics.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Students are required to submit a semina work based on archive materials according to their own selection and to successfully pass the final test.
Recommended literature
  • Aron, R.:. Historie XX. století. Praha, 1999.
  • Durman, K.:. Popely ještě žhavé I. - Válka a nukleární mír. Praha, 2004.
  • Durman, K.:. Popely ještě žhavé II. - Konec dobrodružství. Praha, 2009.
  • Gebhart, J.-Kuklík, J.:. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české 1938-1945. XV.a. Praha, 2006.
  • Gebhart, J.-Kuklík, J.:. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české 1938-1945. XV.b. Praha, 2007.
  • Judt, T.:. Poválečná Evropa. Praha, 2007.
  • Kárník, Z.:. České země v éře první republiky 1918-1938 (i.-III.). Praha, 2002.
  • Klimek, A.:. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české 1918-1929. XIII.. Praha, 2000.
  • Klimek, A.:. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české 1929-1938. XIV.. Praha, 2002.
  • Kokošková, Z.-Kocian, J.-Kokoška, S.:. Československo na rozhraní dvou epoch nesvobody.. Praha, 2005.
  • Kovtun, J.:. Republika v nebezpečném světě. Éra prezidenta Masaryka 1918-1935.. Praha, 2005.
  • Kvaček, R.:. Nad Evropou zataženo. Československo a Evropa 1933-1937.. Praha, 1966.
  • Lipták, L.:. Slovensko v 20. storočí. Bratislava, 1999.
  • Malíř, J.-Marek, P. a kol. Politické strany I. (1861-1938). Brno, 2005.
  • Peroutka, F.:. Budování státu I.-IV.. Praha, 1991.
  • Rákosník, J.-Noha, J.:. Kapitalismus na kolenou. Dopad velké hospodářské krize na evropskou společnost v letech 1929-1934.. Praha, 2012.
  • Rokoský, J. - Svoboda, L. (eds.). Kolektivizace v Československu. Praha, 2013.
  • Rychlík, J.:. Češi a Slováci ve 20. století.. Bratislava, 1997.
  • Šedivý, I.:. Češi, české země a Velká válka, 1914-1918. Praha, 2001.
  • Vašek, R.-Klečacký, M. (eds.):. Česká politická pravice 1938-1945. Praha, 2016. ISBN 978-80-87782-62-0.


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