HIA240 Chapters from the History of the First Republic

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Libor Vykoupil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 15:50–17:25 zrusena M13
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Specializace magisterského studia: Dějiny 19. a 20. století
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Political development in Czechoslovakia before Munich, politics of the Castle, the Parliamentary Five, individual political parties, the structure of Czech political life in the 1920s and 1930s, the system of elections and the functioning of parliament. Day-to-day activities, political scandals and troubles.
Syllabus
  • Founding of independent state in October 1918 (Prague, Brno, Slovakia)
  • Attempts on life of politicians Kramář and Rašín
  • New emblems of new polity – flag and shield
  • Koruna – domestic currency and her problems
  • Political parties and their exponents
  • Mistakes of Czechoslovak foreign policy
  • Czechs and Slovaks
  • Czechs and Germans
Literature
  • MALÍŘ, Jiří and Pavel a kol. MAREK. Politické strany. Vývoj politických stran a hnutí v českých zemích a Československu 1861-2004. sv. I-II. (Political Parteis. The Development of the Parties and Political Movements in the Bohemian Lands and Czechoslovakia, 1861-2004, 1-2.). 1st ed. Brno: Doplněk, 2005, 1826 pp. ISBN 80-7239-180-1. info
  • KLIMEK, Antonín. Boj o hrad.vnitropolitický vývoj Československa 1918-1926 na půdorysu zápasu o prezidentské nástupnictví. Vyd. 1. Praha: Panevropa, 1996, 432 s. ISBN 80-85846-06-3. info
  • KLIMEK, Antonín. Boj o hrad.vnitropolitický vývoj Československa 1926-1935 na půdorysu zápasu o prezidentské nástupnictví. Vyd. 1. Praha: Panevropa, 1998, 591 s. ISBN 80-86130-02-9. info
  • HRUBÝ, Jan. Aféry první republiky : jak se hrálo v zákulisí. 1. vyd. Praha: Práce, 1984, 207 s. URL info
  • UHLÍŘ, Dušan. Anály ze Spálené ulice. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1979, 202 s. URL info
  • VYKOUPIL, Libor. Jiří Stříbrný. Portrét politika. (Jiří Stříbrný. Portrait of politician.). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita a Matice moravská, 2003, 386 pp. Knižnice Matice moravské sv. 12. ISBN 80-210-3241-3. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, reading
Assessment methods
Oral examination aimed at testing the student’s insight into the main theories, concepts and methodologies of the discipline and at checking the student’s ability to connect relevant facts into logical relations.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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