FF:HIB0401 Power and Opposition - Course Information
HIB0401 Relations between the Power and Opposition in the Communist Czechoslovakia 1968 – 1972
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2010
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. et Mgr. Martina Miklová (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová - Timetable
- Thu 11:40–13:15 B21
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- After finishing the course students understand main connections concerning the “Prague Spring” and the beginnings of the “normalization”. They learn read critically and analyze archive documents and get to know methods (including grounds of the oral history method), which apply during elaboration of their paper/seminar work. Students will be able to distinguish from different types of opposition and instruments of repression and evaluate reach of their action. They learn judge function of then society and mechanisms of the communist power.
- Syllabus
- introduction: methodology, terminology, theory of non-democratic regimes
- methodology (continuation), typology of opposition and resistance against the communist regimes
- reform process, communist power in Czechoslovakia (development, periods, comparison), structure of society
- Prague Spring
- principle of “normalization” (August ´68, August ´69, Czech lands vs. Slovakia)
- beginnings of opposition (types, tactics, personalities, documents)
- protest movements (new social movements), the Revolutionary Youth Movement
- student movement
- socialist opposition – introduction (formation, programmes, personalities)
- socialist opposition – excommunists, socialists
- socialist opposition – evaluation, confrontation
- repression, political processes (the 50s vs. the beginning of the 70s), apoliticization of the society
- Czechoslovakia and the Soviet bloc – differences in kinds of opposition and repressive methods (USSR, Poland, East Germany, Hungary)
- Literature
- Opozice a odpor proti komunistickému režimu v Československu 1968-1989. Edited by Petr Blažek. Praha: Dokořán, 2005, 355 s. ISBN 8073630079. info
- HOLZER, Jan and Petr HLAVÁČEK. Opozice v nedemokratických režimech. Vstupní poznámky k možnostem a limitům stávají teorie tohoto pojmu (Opposition in Non-Democratic Regimes. Limits and Potentioal of Current Theoretical Concepts). Středoevropské politické studie. Brno: MPU, 2008, Vol X, No 1, p. 1-16. ISSN 1212-7817. info
- Dahl, Robert A. (ed.): Regimes and Oppositions. New Haven – London, Yale University Press 1973.
- IONESCU, Ghita and Isabel de MADARIAGA. Opposition : past and present of a political institution. 1st pub. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972, 200 s. info
- OTÁHAL, Milan. Opozice, moc, společnost 1969-1989 :příspěvek k dějinám "normalizace". Praha: Maxdorf, 1994, 124 s. ISBN 80-85800-12-8. info
- KAPLAN, Karel. Kořeny československé reformy 1968. 1. vyd. Brno: Doplněk, 2000, 323 s. ISBN 8072390619. info
- KAPLAN, Karel. Kořeny československé reformy 1968. Edited by Karel Kaplan. První vydání. Brno: Doplněk, 2002, 425 stran. ISBN 8072391356. info
- Cuhra, Jaroslav: Trestní represe odpůrců režimu v letech 1969–1972. Edice Sešity ÚSD, sv. 29. Praha, ÚSD AV ČR 1997.
- FIALA, Petr, Jan HOLZER, Miroslav MAREŠ and Pavel PŠEJA. Komunismus v České republice. Vývojové, systémové a ideové aspekty působení KSČM a dalších komunistických organizací v české politice (Communism in Czech Republic. Development, System and Idea Aspects of the Activities of KSČM and other Communist Organizations in Czech Politics). 1st ed. Brno: MPÚ MU, 1999, 315 pp. monografie. ISBN 80-210-2249-3. info
- DOSKOČIL, Zdeněk. Duben 1969 : anatomie jednoho mocenského zvratu. Brno: Doplněk, 2006, 412 stran. ISBN 8072850806. info
- TŮMA, Oldřich. Srpen '69 :edice dokumentů. Praha: Maxdorf, 1996, 344 s. ISBN 80-85800-54-3. info
- Polsko a Československo v roce 1968 : sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní vědecké konference : Varšava, 4.-5. září 2003. Edited by Łukasz Kamiński, Translated by Petr Blažek - Rudolf Vévoda. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, 2006, 361 stran. ISBN 8072850709. info
- Marušiak, Juraj: Nezávislé iniciatívy na Slovensku v rokoch normalizácie. In: Pešek, Jan – Szomolányi, Soňa (eds.): November 1989 na Slovensku: Súvislosti, predpoklady a dôsledky. Bratislava 1999, s. 54–75.
- Mocní? a Bezmocní? : politické elity a disent v období tzv. normalizace : interpretační studie životopisných interview. Edited by Miroslav Vaněk. Vyd. 1. Praha: Prostor, 2006, 411 s. ISBN 807260161X. info
- PAŽOUT, Jaroslav. Mocným navzdory : studentské hnutí v šedesátých letech 20. století. V českém jazyce vyd. 1. Praha: Prostor, 2008, 342 s. ISBN 9788072601868. info
- Pažout, Jaroslav: Hnutí revoluční mládeže 1968 – 1970. Edice dokumentů. Edice Sešity ÚSD, sv. 39. Praha, ÚSD AV ČR 2004.
- Otáhal, Milan: První fáze opozice proti takzvané normalizaci (1969–72). In: Mandler, Emanuel (ed.): Dvě desetiletí před listopadem 89. Edice Historia nova, sv. 3. Praha, ÚSD AV ČR – Maxdorf 1993, s. 11–33.
- Pelikan, Jiri: Socialist Opposition in Eastern Europe. The Czechoslovak Example. London, Allison & Busby 1976.
- ŠEDO, Jakub. Opozice na počátku 70. let a její politické programy. Edited by Jan Holzer. 2001, 92 l. info
- PERNES, Jiří. Od demokratického socialismu k demokracii nekomunistická socialistická opozice v Brně v letech 1968-1972. 1996, 245 s. info
- MEZNÍK, Jaroslav. Můj život za vlády komunistů (1948-1989). 1st ed. Brno: Matice moravská, 2005, 329 pp. Prameny dějin moravských 10. ISBN 80-86488-25-X. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures (fundamental matter), seminars (analysis and comparison of documents, oral presentation of papers), in the case of interest invitation some witnesses
- Assessment methods
- The lecturer will require from students regular attendance and active participation in seminars. The evaluation will come through either by means of the paper and conduction of its main theses (shorter extent) or on account of elaboration the seminar work (longer extent).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
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