HIB0421 Czechs and Poles in the 19th and 20th century

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Friedl, Ph.D., DSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Libor Jan, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 9:10–10:45 B2.34
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 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60
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Course objectives
The lecture series aims to familiarize students with the essential and most important moments from the history of 19th and 20th century Czechs-Poles relations, while also focusing on the stereotypes in mutual perception which affected the formation of these relations. Lectures will explain how the Czech and Polish national awareness formed in different ways in the 19th Century and how the consequences of that different development stigmatize the future mutual relationship. Special attention will be given to the differences and the main points of various international issues as represented by politicians of both nations. Regarding the 20th century the main emphasise is placed on the following issues: conflict of the Teschen region and other conflicting territories, the Czechoslovak-Polish Confederation agenda, co-operation of both nations exile governments, Czechoslovakia and Poland as parts of the Soviet block, the overthrow of the totalitarian regimes and the transformation period.
Syllabus
  • 1) Literature, general introduction
  • 2) At the beginning of the modern nations – Czechs and Poles at the turn of the 18th and 19th century – relations and contacts
  • 3) The November Uprising 1830 and the 1848 revolution and Czechs and Poles
  • 4) The January Uprising 1864 and its echo in the Czech society, the Czech-Polish relations until 1871
  • 5) Before and during the First World War – worsening of the political relations, interest in the Teschen question, the Czech and Polish movements for independence
  • 6) Territorial disputes about the Teschen, Orava and Spiš regions; grounds of the Czechoslovak and Polish foreign policy after the First World War
  • 7) Czechoslovak-Polish relations until 1934 – the Polish minority in the Teschen region, different attitudes towards the Ukrainian question, military co-operation
  • 8) The period of the growing jeopardy of Czechoslovakia, Munich Treaty, withdrawal from the Teschen region, disintegration of Czecho-Slovakia
  • 9) The Czechoslovak resistance in Poland, the beginning of the relations between the Czechoslovak and Polish representations
  • 10) The Czechoslovak-Polish relations during the Second World War, military co-operation, plan of the Czechoslovak-Polish confederation
  • 11) Territorial disputes between Czechoslovakia and Poland in the first years after the Second World War, status of the Polish minority in the Teschen region
  • 12) Years 1948-1968 – solution of the territorial disputes, the Polish minority in the Teschen region, Poland and The Prague Spring 1968
  • 13) The Czechoslovak-Polish contacts in the seventies and eighties of the 20th century, contacts between dissidents from both states, disintegration of the Soviet block
Literature
  • ŽÁČEK, Václav: Čechové a Poláci r. 1848. Praha 1948.
  • GROBELNÝ, Andělín: Češi a Poláci ve Slezsku 1848-1867. Ostrava 1958.
  • KAMIŃSKI, Marek Kazimierz: Konflikt polsko-czeski 1918-1921. Warszawa 2001.
  • JELÍNEK, Petr: Zahraničně-politické vztahy Československa a Polska 1918-1924. Opava 2009.
  • Poláci na Těšínsku 1920-2000. Sborník příspěvků z vědecké konference konané ve dnech 13.-14.10.2000 v Českém Těšíně. Red. J. Szymeczek. Český Těšín 2002.
  • KAMIŃSKI, Marek Kazimierz: Edvard Beneš kontra gen. Władysław Sikorski. Warszawa 2005.
  • PAJÓREK, Leszek: Polska a „Praska Wiosna“. Warszawa 1998.
  • Zaolzí. Polsko-český spor o Těšínské Slezsko 1918-2008. Warszawa 2008.
  • FRIEDL, Jiří: Na jedné frontě. Vztahy československé a polské armády (Polskie Siły Zbrojne) za druhé světové války. Praha 2005.
  • ŽÁČEK, Rudolf: Projekt československo-polské konfederace v letech 1939-1943. Opava 2002.
  • KADŁUBIEC, Karol Daniel a kol.: Polská národní menšina na Těšínsku v České republice (1920-1995). Ostrava 1997.
  • FRIEDL, Jiří and Zdeněk JIRÁSEK. Rozpačité spojenectví : československo-polské vztahy v letech 1945-1949. Vydání 1. Praha: Aleš Skřivan ml., 2008, 399 stran. ISBN 9788086493237. info
  • NĚMEČEK, Jan. Od spojenectví k roztržce. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2003, 373 s. ISBN 8020011455. info
  • Nástin dějin Těšínska. Edited by Jaroslav Valenta. Ostrava: Advertis, 1992, 263 s. info
  • ŽÁČEK, Václav. Češi a Poláci v minulosti. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1967, 770 s. URL info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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