PdF:De2MP_PSP Political trials in Czechoslov - Course Information
De2MP_PSP Political trials in Czechoslovakia after 1945
Faculty of EducationSpring 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Libor Bílek (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Vaculík, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Education - Timetable
- each even Thursday 16:40–18:20 učebna 36
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in History (programme PdF, N-ZS)
- Course objectives
- Having completed the course, a student will be able to incorporate the issue of political trials and political persecution in Czechoslovakia into a broader context of contemporary Czechoslovakian history.
- Learning outcomes
- The student is able to analyze the probable causes of illegal lawsuits in Czechoslovakia. He will be able, on the example of specific cases, to describe the State Security contribution to the preparation of the processes and to explain the influence of the Communist Party on the conduct of its own court proceedings and the determination of the level of punishment.
- Syllabus
- The first years of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia
- Political trials and their role in the system
- State security and its secret collaborators
- Prisoners, interrogators and their methods
- Famous trials (Heliodor Píka, Milada Horáková, Rudolf Slánský ...)
- "Babice" case and persecution of farmers
- A political trial - the role of prosecutors, judges, attorneys and communist party
- The case of Bohumil Havlín
- Prisons
- Prisons in Brno
- Amnesty, rehabilitation and reinvestigation before and after 1990
- Literature
- KAPLAN, Karel. StB o sobě. Výpověď vyšetřovatele Bohumila Doubka. Praha 2002.
- KAPLAN, Karel – PALEČEK, Pavel. Komunistický režim a politické procesy v Československu. Brno 2008.
- HEJL, Vilém. Zpráva o organizovaném násilí. Praha 1990.
- KAPLAN, Karel. Nebezpečná bezpečnost. Státní bezpečnost 1948-1956. Brno 1999.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and class discussion.
- Assessment methods
- Oral colloquium.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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