HIB0398I The Third (Anticommunist) Resistance in Czechoslovakia: A Survey

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Tomáš Bursík (lecturer)
Mgr. Libor Svoboda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:35 zrusena A22 stara
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 60 student(s).
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Course objectives
The course focuses on history and problems of the so-called Third Resistance movement, directed against the Czechoslovak communist regime. Attention will be paid to home resistance movement as well as to the one abroad, to popular unrest, poster actions, etc., as well as to the problems of method and research. Comparison will be made with anticommunist resistance in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Baltic states, Poland, East Germany, Ukraine). Chronologically, the course main focal point lies between 1940s and 1960s.
Students will be acquainted with still relatively unknown chapter of Czech and Slovak modern history, constituted by active resistance against the communist political system in Czechoslovakia after 1948 in comparison to other communist countries. They should be able to put these events into wider context and to be able to understand the character and intensity of the anti-communist resistance in Czechoslovakia and other countries of the Soviet bloc.
Syllabus
  • Methodology and terminology; the Second World War; Soviet Union, its rise to power, and background for sovietization of Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1948; February 1948 and beginnings of the resistance movement; armed resistance; poster actions; resistance in the army and in security forces; the Church; resistance abroad 1948-1956 (agents); 1953; communist security and its reactions; East Germany in 1953; Hungary and Poland in 1956; Poland, East Germany, Baltic states.
Literature
  • Kaplan, Karel: Poúnorový exil 1948-49. Praha 2007
  • VEBER, Václav. Osudové únorové dny : 1948. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2008, 426 s. ISBN 9788071069416. info
  • KAPLAN, Karel and Pavel PALEČEK. Komunistický režim a politické procesy v Československu. 1. vyd. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2001, 253 s. ISBN 80-85947-75-7. info
Teaching methods
Lectures with discussions and presentations.
Assessment methods
Oral colloqium
Language of instruction
Czech
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