HIB0404 The Constrution of a New Socialist Person and Order in Czechoslovakia after February 1948

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Denisa Nečasová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 14:10–15:45 G12
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
Course objectives
Seminary The Constrution of a New Socialist Person and Order in Czechoslovakia after February 1948 deals with process of transformation of Czechoslovak society. It is mainly focus on creation of a new socialist person – an artificial image of inhabitant living in a communist state. This image is conditioned especially by gender and class. Seminary also deals with sources and instruments of this process of creation. In the end of the seminary students should be able to recognize main ideological manipulations of „communist power“ in Czechoslovakia and interpret it. Seminary expects work with texts, its interpretation and discussions. Students after the seminar should understand the context, use the information on the construction of a new socialist person to interpretation of the period, and to analyze the basic problems.
Syllabus
  • 1. introduction
  • 2. brief history 1948-1956
  • 3. revolutionary culture, totalitarism, ideology, marxism, leninism, stalinism
  • 4. language of communist power
  • 5. sources of creation of a new socialist person
  • 6. gender and social conditionality of a new socialist person
  • 7. selected images of a new socialist person
  • 8. instruments of creation of a new socialist person
  • 9. communist festivity – 1th May, October Revolution, International Womenś Day
  • 10. USSR – a great model
  • 11. Personality cult – Klement Gottwald, J.V. Stalin
  • 12. Enemies of a new socialist person
Literature
  • David RODNICK – Elizabeth RODNICK, Notes on Communist Personality Types in Czechoslovakia, in: The Public Opinion Quarterly 1950, č. 1, s. 81-88.
  • Karel KAPLAN, Proměny české společnosti 1948 – 1960, Praha 2007.
  • Jan RANDÁK, Revoluční kultura roku 1848. Pokus o možné vnímání revoluce, in: ČČH 2006, s. 333-349.
  • Moritz CSÁKY – ELENA MANNOVÁ (eds.), Kolektivně identity v strednej Európe v období moderny, Bratislava 1999.
  • Sheila FITZPATRICK (ed.), Stalinism. New Directions, London 2000.
  • Sheila FITZPATRICK, The Cultural Front. Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia, New York 1992.
  • Vladimír MACURA, Šťastný věk: Symboly, emblémy, mýty 1948-1989, Praha 1992.
  • Choi CHATTERJEE, Celebrating Women. Gender, Festival Culture and Bolshevic Ideology, 1910 – 1939, Pittsburgh 2000.
  • VINEN, Richard. Evropa dvacátého století. Translated by Monika Vosková - Vladimír Novák. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2007, 556 s. ISBN 9788070217351. info
  • KALINOVÁ, Lenka. Společenské proměny v čase socialistického experimentu : k sociálním dějinám v letech 1945-1969. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2007, 363 s. ISBN 9788020015365. info
  • KALINOVÁ, Lenka. Společenské proměny v čase socialistického experimentu : k sociálním dějinám v letech 1945-1969. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2007, 363 s. ISBN 9788020015365. info
  • KNAPÍK, Jiří. V zajetí moci : kulturní politika, její systém a aktéři 1948-1956. První vydání. Praha: Libri, 2006, 399 stran. ISBN 807277316X. info
  • KAPLAN, Karel. Kronika komunistického Československa : doba tání 1953-1956. Vyd. 1. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2005, 768 s. ISBN 8086598985. info
  • CURRAN, Daniel J. Ženy, muži a společnost. Edited by Claire M. Renzetti, Translated by Lukáš Gjurič. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova, 2003, 642 s. ISBN 8024605252. info
  • DÜLMEN, Richard van. Historická antropologie : vývoj, problémy, úkoly. Translated by Josef Boček. 1. vyd. v čes. jaz. Praha: Dokořán, 2002, 116 s. ISBN 8086569152. info
  • Totalitarismus ve 20. století : československé zkušenosti. Edited by Radovan Rybář - Milan Valach. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2001, 210 s. ISBN 8021025417. info
  • KAPLAN, Karel. Kořeny československé reformy 1968. 1. vyd. Brno: Doplněk, 2000, 323 s. ISBN 8072390619. info
  • BERGER, Peter L. and Thomas LUCKMANN. Sociální konstrukce reality :pojednání o sociologii vědění. Translated by Jiří Svoboda. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 1999, 214 s. ISBN 80-85959-46-1. info
  • FIDELIUS, Petr. Řeč komunistické moci. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triáda, 1998, 216 s. ISBN 80-86138-03-8. info
  • ARENDT, Hannah. Původ totalitarismu. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1996, 679 s. ISBN 80-86005-13-5. info
  • HEYWOOD, Andrew. Politické ideologie. Translated by Vladimír Drábek. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1994, 293 s. ISBN 80-85865-10-6. info
  • HUNT, Robert Nigel Carew. The theory and practice of communism. Edited by Leonard Bertram Schapiro. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963, 315 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, reading texts
Assessment methods
Final writen work.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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