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462. ''Exilové internacionály'' ve studené válce jako nástroj boje proti komunismu
- Creator:
- Martin Nekola
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- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- dějiny, history, 8, and 93/94
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- Studie se zabývá formováním a vývojem nadnárodních organizací politických exulantů ze zemí za železnou oponou na Západě, především během první fáze studené války. Hlavním záměrem textu je poskytnout základní faktografický přehled a nastínit možné srovnání typů, aktivit a cílů protikomunistických exilových organizací. Ať už se jednalo o politické strany, národní výbory, nebo ideologické a profesní organizace působící v exilových podmínkách, úloha a postavení těchto subjektů podle autora fatálně závisely na změnách mezinárodní situace a míře podpory poskytované vládami západních zemí, především Spojených států amerických. Dokladuje to jejich hromadné zakládání na přelomu čtyřicátých a padesátých let minulého století, poměrně krátké období skutečné aktivity v první polovině padesátých let a poté postupný, leč nezvratný úpadek v dalších desetiletích. Detailněji se autor zaměřil na pět nejvýznamnějších „exilových internacionál“: Mezinárodní rolnickou unii, Socialistickou unii střední a východní Evropy, Liberálnědemokratickou unii střední a východní Evropy, Křesťanskodemokratickou unii střední Evropy a Mezinárodní ústředí svobodných odborů v exilu. Ač dosáhly jistého významu a v jejich strukturách působila řada Čechů, domácí historiografie dosud nevěnovala tomuto typu organizací, a ostatně ani celé kapitole exilu v době studené války, systematickou pozornost., The article is concerned with the formation and development of the supranational organizations in the West which were composed of political exiles from the countries behind the Iron Curtain, mainly during the fi rst phase of the Cold War. The article sets out chiefl y to provide a basic factual overview and to outline a possible comparison of the types, activities, and aims of the anti-Communist exile organizations. Regardless of whether they were political parties, national committees, or ideological and professional organizations working in exile, the task and status of these subjects depended entirely, the author argues, on changes in the international situation and the degree of support from Western governments, chiefl y the United States of America. That is demonstrated by their being established one after the other in the late 1940s and early 1950s, their comparatively short period of real activity in the fi rst half of the 1950s, and, later, their gradual, though irreversible, decline over the next decades. The author then focuses in detail on the fi ve most important ‘exile internationals’: the International Peasant Union, the Socialist Union of Central and Eastern Europe, the Liberal Democratic Union of Central and Eastern Europe, the Christian Democratic Union of Central Europe, and the International Centre of Free Trade Unions in Exile. Although these groups achieved some importance, and although a number of Czechs worked in their organizations, Czech historians have yet to pay systematic attention to them, let alone to the chapter of Cold War exiles as a whole., and Martin Nekola.
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463. ''Getting around to the human being in the next quarter'': leisure time in the Czech lands 1948-1956
- Creator:
- Franc, Martin and Knapík, Jiří
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- bez média and svazek
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- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- historiography, Czech lands, and Communist takeove
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- The authors consider the changes in the conception, organization, ways of spending, and forms of leisure in the Czech Lands from the establishment of the Communist monopoly on power in early 1948 to the second half of the 1950s. (After this point leisure time here began strikingly to change under the infl uence of consumerist trends.) They consider the topic in the context of the dominant ideology and changes in economic, social, and arts policies. The authors take into account gender differences, contrasts between town and country, and special features of social groups. They pay particular attention to leisure amongst young people and children. The authors do not, however, see the Communist takeover of February 1948 as a watershed in the sphere of leisure. Instead, they demonstrate both the continuity and differences between the period of limited democracy, from May 1945 to February 1948, and the years that followed. In some cases, they highlight features that were identical in Nazi German and Communist approaches to leisure activities (the rejection of jazz, ''trash'' (brak) in the arts, and Western infl uences in general). The authors discuss how the Communist regime intervened intensively in the way people chose to spend their free time, in its endeavour to shape a new type of man and woman in the new social conditions. At the same time, particularly in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the State so emphasized the importance of the work of building socialism, that leisure was seen as a ''necessary evil'', since it used up valuable physical and mental energy that would have been better spent on increasing productivity. For the same aims, but also with regard to the idea of somewhatdemocratising the arts, the regime gave preference to activities such as political and vocational self-education as well as the study of selected arts and cultural values. In keeping with the subordination of the individual to the interests of society, collective forms of recreation and the leisure (holidays spent with groups of co-workers, mass group visits to plays, fi lms, concerts, museums, galleries, and, later, Pioneer camps) were given priority. Traditional club activity and individual leisure were seen as ''bourgeois survivals''. Some young people’s non-conformist leisure activities met with suspicion from the authorities or with outright repression. Amongst the models of leisure that the regime held worthy of emulation were the Socialist youth construction projects (stavby mládeže), ''volunteer'' work, and additional instruction or training. The new organizations, such as the Revolutionary Trades Union Movement (Revoluční odborové hnutí - ROH), the Czechoslovak Union of Youth (Československý svaz mládeže - ČSM), and the Union for Co-operation with the Army (Svaz pro spolupráci s armádou - Svazarm), which took the place of the earlier clubs and associations, comported with the new ideology and provided the required forms of leisure. The authorities endeavoured also to support considerably developed and differentiated hobbies, such as making art, playing board games, and collecting. Special facilities were established to run these activities, including the enterprise-based clubs of the ROH, houses of culture (kulturní domy), and people’s educational societies (osvětové besedy). Forms of universally accessible activity, like chess and phillumeny (collecting matchbox labels), were supported, whereas fi nancially more demanding hobbies or those linked to private gain, such as philately or numismatics, were marginalized. A slight retreat from the ideologised conception of leisure came with the so-called ''new course'' of 1953. But more striking changes were made in the second half of the 1950s. These years, which saw shorter working weeks, a higher standard of living than before, and the emergence of consumerist trends, are described by the authors as a period of the planned expansion of leisure and its gradual individualisation.
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464. ''He who leads - controls!'': corporate management and rigours of ''Socialist control'' in Czechoslovak enterprises in the 1980s
- Creator:
- Vilímek, Tomáš and Mareš, Jiří
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- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- period of late socialism and historic
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- The study deals with issues of corporate management and pitfalls of the ''socialist supervision'' in Czechoslovak enterprises in the period of late socialism. Using documents of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the State Security, period texts and specialized publications, it shows how party organs and state authorities were unsuccessfully trying to make supervisory mechanisms and audits a functional tool of the implementation of the ruling party´s economic policy. The author analyzes the supervisory and audit mechanisms that were used, and outlines basic reasons of the almost fatal failure of supervisory activities of the system which was, in a way, obsessed with supervision and control. He explains the systemic conditionality of the supervisory system which socialist managers often and in many respects bent to suit the needs of the enterprises they were in charge of; such situation naturally did not match the needs of the society as a whole. Using many specifi c cases as an example, the study graphically shows that members of the Czechoslovak corporate management community in the 1980s were fully aware of systemic, political and social limitations of the supervisory system which they managed to modify, fairly successfully, to suit intra-corporate conditions. The result was a situation in which the party leadership was reacting to increasingly obvious symptoms of the “agony of the centrally planned economy” by adopting various directives and guidelines to make the supervisory process more effective and to consistently promote the ''whoever manages - supervises'' principle. However, the anticipated effect did not materialize and, at the end of the day, the non-functional supervisory mechanisms made a substantial contribution to the collapse of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. and Překlad: Jiří Mareš
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465. ''I did not get the subjects I was expecting, so I am over my head in work preparation.'': correspondence and final reports of experts sent to Iraq during the 1960s
- Creator:
- Jůnová Macková, Adéla and Clarke, Melvyn
- Format:
- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- export of experts, CSAS, Iraq, reports, correspondence, and daily life
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- It is the aim of this publication to present CSAS archive material relating to the issues surrounding the dispatch of Czechoslovak experts to Iraq in the 1960s and to interpret it so as to show both the benefits and the obstacles involved. Some of the documents have been preserved in the Collection of CSAS Foreign Reports fond, in which final reports from the foreign stays of experts teaching at higher education institutes or carrying out scientific research abroad are arranged chronologically and geographically.
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466. ''Im übrigen freue ich mich unendlich auf die Arbeit im Sudetenland!'': Studentské praxe v Sudetoněmeckém ústavu pro výzkum země a lidu pod vedením dr. Margarete Klanteové 1942-1944
- Creator:
- Josefovičová, Milena and Clarke, Melvyn
- Format:
- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- sudetens, students, war, deployment, and scholary work
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- Během 2. světové války nastala ve Třetí říši paradoxní situace. Ač nacistická ideologie nastolila ideál ženy jako rodičky a matky, jejíž místo je u domácího krbu, tudíž i její vzdělání má být omezeno na dovednosti spojené s mateřstvím, výchovou dětí a vedením domácnosti, vzhledem k tomu, že mladí muži - tedy i studenti či vědci - museli narukovat, uvolněná místa mohly zaplnit mladé ženy. Studentkám a začínajícím vědeckým pracovnicím se naskytla šance prokázat své schopnosti, získat respekt svých mužských učitelů či nadřízených. Tato studie je sondou do válečné každodennosti a pojednává o zapojení studentek do hospodářských, historických a ''rasových'' vědeckých úkolů Sudetoněmeckého ústavu pro výzkum země a lidu (Sudetendeutsche Anstalt für Landes- und Volksforschung) v Liberci v letech 1942-1943. V deseti tematických komisích SALV se měla pěstovat a rozvíjet smysluplná spolupráce odborníků působících přímo v župě s kolegy z příslušných seminářů a ústavů nejen pražské Německé univerzity, nýbrž i z univerzit v sousedních říšských župách či spřátelených zemích. and A paradoxical situation arose in the Third Reich during the Second World War. Although Nazi ideology presented the ideal woman as a child-bearer and mother, whose place was at the domestic hearth, so even her education was to be limited to skills associated with motherhood, child-rearing and running a household, because young men, including students and scholars, had to enlist, the vacated places could be filled by young women. Female students and neophyte scholars were provided the opportunity to show their abilities, and gain respect among their male teaching colleagues and superiors. This study is a survey of everyday life in the war, focusing on the involvement of female students in economic, historical and ''racial'' scholarly tasks at the Sudeten German Institute for Research on Provincial Characteristics and Folkways (Sudetendeutsche Anstalt für Landes- und Volksforschung) in Liberec during 1942-1943. The ten special-subject commissions at SALV were meant to foster and develop meaningful collaboration between specialists working within the province and colleagues from the relevant seminaries and institutes not only at the German University in Prague, but also from universities in neighbouring Reich provinces and allied lands. Translated by Melvyn Clarke
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467. ''It was the poles'' or how Emanuel Ringelblum was instrumentalized by expellees in west Germany: on the history of the book Ghetto Warschau: tagebücher aus dem Chaos
- Creator:
- Stach, Stephan and Dichelle, David
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- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- holocaust, Ghetto Warschau, and Emanuel Ringelblum
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- The article investigates how the Holocaust distorted and exploited in Cold War debates on the example of genesis and reception of the book Ghetto Warschau. Tagebücher aus dem Chaos [Warsaw Ghetto: Diaries from Chaos]. The book is a translation of the essay Stosunki polsko-żydowskie w czasie drugiej wojny światowej [Polish-Jewish relations during the Second World War], written by the Jewish historian and creator of the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto Emanuel Ringelblum while hiding from the German Occupiers in Warsaw in 1944. Ringelblum addressed his essay to the Polish reader discussing the relation of Christian Poles and Polish Jews under German occupation based on his own experience and the material he had collected. It was originally published in several portions in the Bulletin of the Jewish Historical Institute, an early Holocaust Research Center based in Warsaw. The German translation was based on this publication and published in summer 1967 in a Stuttgart-based publishing house. However, the new title, introduced by its German editors, suggested it was Ringelblum’s diary. Above that the blurb and many footnotes highlighted the role of Poles as perpetrators in the Holocaust, while minimizing that of Germans. As the article shows, the book was prepared by the Göttinger Arbeitskreis ostdeutscher Wissenschaftler [Göttingen Working Group of Eastern German Scholars], a Think Tank with close ties to the German expellee community, campaigning for a revision of the Polish western border. Göttinger Arbeitskries used the book and earlier on excerpts of Ringelblum’s text for a smear-campaign in the West-German expellee press. Through the biased presentation and distorted context of the work these former Ostforschers sought to portrait Poles as eternal anti-Semites and the factual perpetrators of the mass murder of Polish and European Jews following their anti-Polish agenda. Polish nationalist within the ruling Polish United Workers Party in turn exploited the book and the campaign based on it, which coincided with the anti-Semitic campaign in Poland. Though the Institute was not involved in the publication of the German book, the Polish national communists accused it of supporting German revisionism and ''Zionists'' abroad in their slander of Poland. and Přeložil: David Dichelle
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468. ''It will not work without a social policy!'': research on social policy practice on the territory of the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
- Creator:
- Šustrová, Radka
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- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and historiography
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- Social policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, from mid-March 1939 to early May 1945, is a key topic in contemporary research on the history of this brief period. The article is concerned with the possible approaches to research with regard to the latest trends in research on National Socialism. It begins with an outline of the historiography of social policy in the Protectorate, which is marked chiefl y by a predominant uniformity of argumentation, a lack of systematic approach to interpretation, and Czech and Czechoslovak historians’ limiting themselves to the ethnically Czech population. Research conducted so far has completely failed to put social policy into the context of social history. The author thus fi rst provides an outline of the social framework, which represents the concept of a Volksgemeinschaft (national/ethnic/racial community), in which ideas about the purpose and function of social policy were formed and implemented. In the next part, she focuses on the defi nition of the term ''social policy'' as understood by Nazi theorists after 1933. In the last part of the article, she seeks to defi ne the new social relations in the CzechGerman environment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and suggests possibilities of its analysis in the area of the implementation of social policy. She believes that it will be fruitful to study the implementation of the relevant criteria in the Reich and the Protectorate at the level of discussions among experts, and to research social policy in practice. The author sees the most important aspects of the implementation of social policy as residing in the various motivations of the regime when implementing social policy in relation to different parts of the population, ranging from social exclusion to forms of social protectionism.
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469. ''Minulost je bitevním polem současníků'': konference k osmdesátinám Viléma Prečana
- Creator:
- Jiří Hoppe
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- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- Prečan, Vilém, 1933-, historici, jubilejní oslavy, konference, dějiny, jubilee celebration, conference, history, 8, and 94(437)
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- Ústav pro soudobé dějiny Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i., byl hlavním pořadatelem konference „Minulost je bitevním polem současníků“, která se konala ve dnech 24. a 25. ledna 2013 u příležitosti osmdesátých narozenín historika Viléma Prečana, prvního ředitele ústavu a současného předsedy správní rady Československého dokumentačního střediska. Pracovní program konference se odbýval v pražském Černínském paláci, společenský večer v Muzeu hudby mělo v režii Národní muzeum. Autor přibližuje všechny referáty přednesené v pěti konferenčních blocích a závěrem nechává zaznít v delší citaci slova, v nichž se nad některými příspěvky a tématy konference zamyslel Vilém Prečan., Organized chiefly by the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, a conference, ‘The Past is the Battlefield of the Our Contemporaries’, was held in the Czernin Palais, Prague, on 24 and 25 January 2013, to mark the eightieth birthday of the historian Vilém Prečan, the first director of the Institute and the current Chairman of the Board of the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre. The conference was accompanied by an evening of music and a buffet dinner at the Museum of Music, organized by the National Museum, Prague. The author reports here on all the papers given in the five conference blocks, and concludes with a long quotation of Vilém Prečan’s views on some of the papers and topics presented at the conference., and Jiří Hoppe.
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470. ''Miř přesněji!'': korejská válka jako černý bod socialistického realismu
- Creator:
- Vít Schmarc
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- korejská válka (1950-1953), socialistický realismus (literatura), média, Korean War (1950-1953), socialist realism (literature), media, 8, and 93/94
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- Studie zkoumá reprezentaci korejské války jakožto zásadní události v tištěných médiích a literatuře československého stalinismu v letech 1950 až 1952. Zaměřuje se na specifika mechanismu produkování obrazu „nepřítele“ a „nepřátelského“ prostoru, analyzuje i vzájemnou interakci dobové publicistiky a poezie. Rozebírá klíčové fenomény, které tvoří pilíř dobového obrazu korejské války (figura vůdce, mytologie původu „nepřítele“) a usouvztažňuje je s obecnějšími mechanismy vytváření skutečnosti v první polovině padesátých let dvacátého století. Poukazuje přitom na vzájemné propojení a ovlivňování vyhrocené propagandistické rétoriky a básnické obraznosti. Studie materiálově čerpá z básnických sbírek, které obsahují verše reagující na válku v Koreji, z příležitostných básní, publicistických článků a karikatur publikovaných především na stránkách deníku Rudé právo a týdeníku Tvorba. Metodologicky navazuje na výzkumy ideologie jako systému reprezentace reálných podmínek existence (Louis Althusser, Slavoj Žižek) a na sémiotické analýzy kultury a společnosti období stalinismu (Vladimír Macura), které poukazují na velmi aktivní a produktivní vztah literatury a moci, jenž tvoří samotnou podstatu socialistického realismu jako systému (Katerina Clarková, Jevgenij Dobrenko)., This article explores the representation of the Korean War as a fundamental event in the print media and belles-lettres of Stalinist Czechoslovakia from 1950 to 1952. It focuses on the special features of the mechanism of producing the image of the ‘enemy’ and the ‘hostile’ space, as well as analysing the interaction of period journalism and poetry. The author analyses the central phenomena, which created a cornerstone of the contemporaneous image of the Korean War (the figure of the leader and the mythology of the origin of the ‘enemy’), and correlates them with more general mechanisms of creating reality in the first half of the 1950s. He also points out the interlinkage and mutual influences of the pointed propagandistic rhetoric and poetic imagery. The article draws on collections of verse, which contain poems reacting to the war in Korea, and on occasional poems, journalism, and caricatures published mainly in the daily Rudé právo and the weekly Tvorba. In method, the article is in the tradition of research on ideology as a system of representing the real conditions of existence (as in the work of Louis Althusser and Slavoj Žižek) and the tradition of semiotic analysis of culture and society in the Stalinist period (as in the work of Vladimír Macura), identifying the very active, productive relationship between literature and the powers that be, which creates the very essence of socialist realism as a system (as discussed by Katerina Clark and Evgeny Dobrenko)., Vít Schmarc., and Obsahuje bibliografii
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