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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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Course content
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1) Czech Lands and Austrian Empire, 1792-1848 2) Czech Lands and Austrian Empire, 1848-1867. 3) Czech Lands in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1914. 4) The Industrial Revolution. The economical structures of the Czech Lands. 5) Culture and Society in the 19th Century Czech Lands. 6) First World War and the Creation of Czechoslovakia. 7) The First Czechoslovakian Republic (1918-1938). 8) The Reichsprotectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Czechoslovakian and 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) Everyday life in Czechoslovakia in the 20th century. 13) The transformation of gender and identities (19th and 20th century).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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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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unspecified
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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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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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