UZHIA240 Chapters from the History of the First Republic

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
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
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:35 A21 stara
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Specializace magisterského studia: Dějiny 19. a 20. století
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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
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
Assessment methods
Lectures, class discussion, reading, final oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010.
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