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Lecturer(s)
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Vydra Zbyněk, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Hanulík Vladan, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Homolová Dita, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Lacinová Najmanová Veronika, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) The Birth of the Nation - Czech Lands and the Austrian Empire, 1792-1830 2) Industrial Revolution - Czech Lands and the Austrian Empire, 1830-1848. 3) The Way to Sadowa - Czech Lands and the Austrian Empire, 1848-1867. 4) Modernization and Nationalism - Czech Lands and Austria-Hungary, 1867-1900. 5) Fin-de-siecle - Czech Lands and Austria-Hungary, 1900-1914. 6) First World War and the Creation of Czechoslovakia. 7) The First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938). 8) The Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Lands in the Second World War (1939-1945). 9) Czechoslovakia and the Eastern Bloc, 1945-1953. 10) Czechoslovakia and the Eastern Bloc, 1953-1968. 11) Czechoslovakia and the Eastern Bloc, 1969-1989. 12) Czech society at the threshold of the new millennium.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Home preparation for classes
- 30 hours per semester
- Contact teaching
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 40 hours per semester
- Independent critical reading
- 56 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The main objective of this course is to present comprehensively the development of Czech society and the Czech state in the 19th and 20th centuries in the context of Central European history. Lectures are focused on the main themes of political history, while also addressing issues of social, economic and cultural history.
Students acquire basic knowledge about the development of Czech society and the Czech state in the 19th and 20th centuries. At the same time they are be able to put the events and trends in the Czech area in the broader context of Central Europe.
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Prerequisites
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Ability to think critically and independently.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination
Written exam at the end of the semester.
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Recommended literature
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Abrams, Bradley F. The struggle for the soul of the nation : Czech culture and the rise of communism. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. ISBN 0-7425-3024-8.
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Agnew, Hugh LeCaine. The Czechs and the lands of the Bohemian crown. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8179-4492-3.
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Bryant, Chad Carl. Prague in black : Nazi rule and Czech nationalism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-674-02451-9.
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CORNWALL, M.; EVANS, R. J. W. (edd.). Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918-1938.. Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Frommer, Benjamin. National cleansing : retribution against Nazi collaborators in postwar Czechoslovakia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-00896-4.
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GLASSHEIM, Eagle . Noble Nationalist. Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy. Harvard College: USA, 2005.
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Heimann, Mary. Czechoslovakia : the state that failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-300-14147-4.
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King, Jeremy Rupert Nicolas. Budweisers into Czechs and Germans : a local history of Bohemian politics, 1848-1948. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-691-12234-2.
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Polišenský, Josef. History of Czechoslovakia in outline. Praha: Bohemia International, 1991.
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