The study deals with the topic of Czech-Polish relations in the context of broadside ballads production (especially pilgrim) as exemplified by Orel’s printing house in Frýdek. The study focuses on the question of how the popularity of the pilgrim sites located in the territory of
present-day Poland (Częstochowa and Kalwaria Zebrzydowska) reflected in Orel’s printing house editorial-publishing strategy. The study also deals with the topics of the existence of Czech and Polish variants of religious (especially pilgrim) songs, Orel’s other Polish-language output, and the printing house’s ties to other printing enterprises in the region of Upper Silesia.
The paper examines the rising significance of propaganda after the First World War and focuses in particular on how it was perceived in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. The increasing danger posed by neighboring Nazi Germany elevated it to a conscious effort to use spiriual means to control the masses in order to help defend democratic Czechoslovakia. The paper analyzes the era's ideas on the significance of propaganda. It focuses on discussons on the relationship between propaganda and democracy, and attempts to create a ministry of propaganda in a democratic state. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou