Search

Start Over Creator Vácha, Dalibor

3. Soukromý život ve Stalinově Rusku

Creator:
Vácha, Dalibor
Type:
article and TEXT
Language:
Czech
Description:
Britský historik Orlando Figes podle recenzenta v nové knize nezůstal nic dlužen pověsti o své skvělé erudici, zručném zacházení s prameny a vynikajícím talentu vypravěče. Kniha líčí každodennost a rodinný život ve Stalinově Rusku od dvacátých do čtyřicátých let minulého století. Zachycuje přitom také, jak se otřesy „velkých dějin“, jako byl teror koncem třicátých let nebo válka, promítaly do privátní sféry. Postavy jeho vyprávění nejsou anonymní, ale skuteční žijící lidé, což mu dodává na věrohodnosti. Za nejpodnětnější nicméně recenzent pokládá závěrečnou kapitolu, která se zamýšlí nad problémy vztahu historických metod a paměti. and In the book under review, the British historian Orlando Figes, according to the reviewer, lives up to his reputation as a man of great erudition, who deftly handles the sources, and has an outstanding talent for narration. The book describes everyday life and family life in Stalin’s Russia from the 1920s to the 1940s. It describes how the tremendous upheavals of ‘great history’, including of course the terror in the late 1930s and the world war, were projected into the private sphere. Since the people he discusses are real and not anonymous, they add credibility to his account. Nevertheless, the reviewer considers the most inspiring part to be the final chapter, which contemplates the problems of the relationship between the methods of historiography and memory.
Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public

4. Tepluskas and eshelons: Czechoslovak legionaries on their journey across Russia

Creator:
Vácha, Dalibor
Format:
bez média and svazek
Type:
model:article and TEXT
Subject:
legionary literature and Czechoslovak legionaries
Language:
English
Description:
Using specialized sources such as legionary literature (a vast sub-genre of Czech fi ction between the two world wars), memoirs, diaries, photographs, and personal effects, the author seeks in this article to portray the everyday life of the Czechoslovak legionaries in Russia from 1918 to 1920. To a considerable extent their lives were linked to their being moved about by train. At the centre of this were the tepluskas, furnished and heated box cars, part of the eshelons (troop trains), which served as the makeshift homes in which they spent most of their time. The Czechoslovak volunteers boarded the tepluskas in the spring of 1918, after retreating from the troops of the Central Powers in Ukraine. They then headed for Vladivostok, where they were meant to board ship and sail to France. As things turned out, however, the legionaries remained in Russia far longer, and fought in battles against the Bolsheviks, at fi rst to save themselves, but later, on the side of the Entente, in support of Masaryk’s foreign policy and the creation of an independent Czechoslovakia. The author concentrates more on the living conditions, activities, and customs of the legionaries in tepluskas. He discusses the furnishings of them, the way they were decorated, and their adaptation to the current needs of the legionaries. Last but not least, he attempts to describe how the legionaries experienced their milieu and how it infl uenced their lives together. The author seeks to provide a vivid picture of the “army” on wheels, which changed considerably over time.
Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public

5. Těplušky a ešelony

Creator:
Vácha, Dalibor
Type:
article and TEXT
Language:
Czech
Description:
Autor se prostřednictvím specifických pramenných materiálů, jako jsou „legionářské romány“ (charakteristický žánr prvorepublikové beletrie), memoáry, deníky, fotografie i předměty osobní povahy, snaží vykreslit každodenní způsob života československých legionářů v Rusku v letech 1918 až 1920, do značné míry spjatý s jejich přesuny po železnici. V centru jejich vojenského života stála těpluška, zařízený mobilní obytný vagon, fungující jako provizorní domov, v němž trávili většinu svého času. Českoslovenští dobrovolci do těplušek nastoupili na jaře 1918 po ústupu z Ukrajiny před vojsky ústředních mocností a směřovali do Vladivostoku, kde se měli nalodit na plavbu do Francie. Souběhem okolností však legionáři zůstali v Rusku mnohem déle a zapojili se do bojů proti bolševikům, nejdříve s ohledem na vlastní sebezáchovu a později na straně dohodových mocností v úsilí podpořit Masarykovu zahraniční akci a vytvoření samostatného československého státu. Autor se však soustředí spíše na životní podmínky, činnost a zvyklosti legionářů v těpluškách, pojednává o vybavení vagonů, jejich dekorování a účelovém přizpůsobování při zajišťování aktuálních životních potřeb a v neposlední řadě se pokouší vystihnout, jak legionáři své prostředí prožívali a jak ovlivňovalo jejich soužití. Studie není statickým popisem, ale snaží se podat plastický obraz „armády“ na kolejích, který se s postupem času dynamicky měnil. and Using specialized sources such as legionary literature (a vast sub-genre of Czech fiction between the two world wars), memoirs, diaries, photographs, and personal effects, the author seeks in this article to portray the everyday life of the Czechoslovak legionaries in Russia from 1918 to 1920. To a considerable extent their lives were linked to their being moved about by train. At the centre of this were the teplushki, furnished and heated box cars, part of the eshelony (troop trains), which served as the makeshift homes in which they spent most of their time. The Czechoslovak volunteers boarded the teplushki in spring 1918, after retreating from the troops of the Central Powers in the Ukraine. They then headed for Vladivostok, where they were meant to board ship and sail to France. As things turned out, however, the legionaries remained in Russia far longer, and fought in battles against the Bolsheviks, at first to save themselves, but later, on the side of the Entente, in support of Masaryk’s foreign policy and the creation of an independent Czechoslovakia. The author concentrates more on the living conditions, activities, and customs of the legionaries in teplushki. He discusses the furnishings of the teplushki, the way they were decorated, and their adaptation to the current needs of the legionaries. Last but not least, he attempts to describe how the legionaries experienced their milieu and how it influenced their lives together. The author seeks to provide a vivid picture of the ‘army’ on wheels, which changed considerably over time.
Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public

7. When we walk down Wenceslas square…: a picture of the return of Czech legionnaires to their homeland in their recollections and autobiographic novels

Creator:
Vácha, Dalibor and Mareš, Jiří
Format:
bez média and svazek
Type:
model:article and TEXT
Subject:
Czech Legionnaires, Czechoslovakia, and Russia
Language:
English
Description:
The study stems from the author’s long-time interest in the history of the Czechoslovak foreign resistance during the Great War, particularly in Russia. As to its sources, it draws from a collection of published recollections of Czechoslovak legionnaires and their autobiographic novels and other texts of prose. The author attempts to reconstruct the picture of the return of Czechoslovak legions from Russia to their home country; due to the nature of his sources, however, his intention is not to convey an authentic experience of the return in the fi rst days and weeks, but rather to examine the construct created by the legionnaires’ memories and novels. In this respect, he makes use of, in particular, Anglo-Saxon historical literature dealing with similar topics. The key issues include how individuals or whole social groups were coping with the reality of the newborn republic, which was rather different from the visions of the home country they had been dreaming about while away. An important factor affecting their refl ections was also the required political nonaffi liation of organizations of legionnaires, as well as the criticism of the situation not just among the veterans, but in the entire society. The extent of the idealization of Russia, which was a fairly frequent phenomenon among them, was directly proportional to the disillusionment after their return, and was a mirror image of their previous idealization of home while they had been in Russia. In the author’s opinion, the topic of the return of Czechoslovak legions home and their life in their home country is far from exhausted; this is why the present study should be just a springboard to further broadly conceived research. and Přeložil Jiří Mareš
Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public