"Die Wirklichkeit war so, daß von den Versprechen nichts erüllt wurde" (eine Schattenseite der Reemigratition von Landsleuten aus Bulgarien nach Südmähren mit den Augen eines ihrer Beteiligten).
The year 1948 brought an essential transformation to the countryside, its traditional values and principals of its functioning. The collectivization did not only mean consolidation of private land into collective farms; for the entire period, it was connected with repressive methods used against so-called kulaks. The contribution is a micro-probe into the life story of miller Jaroslav Paukner from the village of Hrejkovice in Southern Bohemia. Together with his parents, he was classified as “kulak” and he had to face permanent economic and social pressure crowned by
handing over of his farm to the local collective farm, deportation of the family from the village and following court proceedings as a consequence of miller´s self-willed removing into his native village. The article is based on comparison of archive materials, private chronicle of a Hrejkovice inhabitant, and survivors ́ memories. Its main aim was to offer an alternative view of the 1950s than that offered by history books, namely through a very particular story.
"Festivals" - Wedding And Baptismal Rituals in the Early Modern Ages. (Conclusions of Trent Council and Prague Synod in the light of Southbohemian registers of births and deaths from the second half of the 17th century).
"The Aristocratic versus Agricultural." The Rise and Fall of Aristocratic Entrepreneurship in Sugar Industry as Exemplified by the Colloredo-Mannsfeld Sugar Factory in Opočno and the Schlik Sugar Factory in Kopidlno.