HIB035n Czechs and Poles in the 19th and 20th century

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Friedl, Ph.D., DSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Friedl, Ph.D., DSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:40 B2.43
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! HIB0421 Czechs and Poles
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
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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.
Learning outcomes
By completing this lecture cycle, the students should acquire a solid knowledge on the development of Czech/Czechslovak-Polish relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. They should be able to explain the issue of the territorial disputes between Czechslovakia and Poland and characterise the differences in the development of both states in the 20th century. Within the course, they also acquire knowledge of the development of Polish minorities in Cieszyn Silesia in the 20th century.
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
    required literature
  • • Poláci na Těšínsku. Studijní materiál. Český Těšín: Kongres Poláků v České republice, 2009. ISBN 978-80-87381-00-7
  • ŽÁČEK, Václav. Češi a Poláci v minulosti. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1967, 770 s. URL info
    recommended literature
  • ŽÁČEK, Václav: Čechové a Poláci r. 1848. Praha 1948.
  • VALENTA, Jaroslav: Česko-polské vztahy v letech 1918-1920 a Těšínské Slezsko. Ostrava: Krajské nakladatelství, 1961.
  • Polsko a Československo v roce 1968. Sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní vědecké konference Varšava 4. – 5. září 2003. Eds. Petr Blažek – Łukasz Kamiński – Rudolf Vévoda. Praha 2006. ISBN 80-7363-103-2
  • Polsko a Československo v roce 1968. Sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní vědecké konference Varšava 4. – 5. září 2003. Eds. Petr Blažek – Łukasz Kamiński – Rudolf Vévoda. Praha 2006. ISBN 80-7363-103-2
  • Zaolzí. Polsko-český spor o Těšínské Slezsko 1918-2008. Warszawa: Karta, 2008. ISBN 978-83-61283-13-3
  • • KADŁUBIEC, Karol Daniel a kol.: Polská národní menšina na Těšínsku v České republice (1920-1995). Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 1997. ISBN 80-7042-479-6
  • • GROBELNÝ, Andělín: Češi a Poláci ve Slezsku 1848-1867. Ostrava 1958.
  • 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. ISBN 80-238-8050-0
  • • KAMIŃSKI, Marek Kazimierz: Konflikt polsko-czeski 1918-1921. Warszawa 2001. ISBN 83-86842-90-3
  • • KAMIŃSKI, Marek Kazimierz: Edvard Beneš kontra gen. Władysław Sikorski. Warszawa: Neriton, 2005. ISBN 83-89729-11-3
  • • PAJÓREK, Leszek: Polska a „Praska Wiosna“. Warszawa: Agencja Wydawnicza „Egros“, Wojskowy Instytut Historyczny, 1998. ISBN 83-86268-77-8.
  • Ryszard Siwiec : 1909-1968. Translated by Petr Blažek - Dominika Ferens - Petruška Šustrová. Praha: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, 2015, 247 stran. ISBN 9788087912331. info
  • 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
  • BLAŽEK, Petr. Živá pochodeň na Stadionu Desetiletí : protest Ryszarda Siwce proti okupaci Československa v roce 1968 : historická studie a edice dokumentů. Praha: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, 2008, 93 s. ISBN 9788087211021. info
  • FRIEDL, Jiří. Na jedné frontě : vztahy československé a polské armády (Polskie Siły Zbrojne) za druhé světové války. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny Akademie věd České republiky, 2005, 384 stran. ISBN 807285061X. info
  • NĚMEČEK, Jan. Od spojenectví k roztržce. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2003, 373 s. ISBN 8020011455. info
  • ŽÁČEK, Rudolf. Projekt československo-polské konfederace v letech 1939-1943. Vyd. 1. Opava: Slezský ústav Slezského zemského muzea, 2001, 247 s. ISBN 80-86224-16-3. info
  • Nástin dějin Těšínska. Edited by Jaroslav Valenta. Ostrava: Advertis, 1992, 263 s. info
Teaching methods
Lerctures, discussion, homework
Assessment methods
Oral colloquium aimed at checking the student’s ability to connect relevant facts into logical relations.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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