Course: History of Czechoslovakia in 20th Century

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Course title History of Czechoslovakia in 20th Century
Course code KHV/1HCZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction German
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Špirek Václav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1-2. Establishment of the First Czechoslovak Republic; the system of political parties; the political and economic development in the 1920s 3-4. Czechoslovakia in the 1930s: the Great Depression; the political and economic development in the 1930s 5-6. The Munich Agreement; the First Vienna Award; the Second Czechoslovak Republic; the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, domestic and foreign resistance 7-8. The years 1945-1960: economic, social and political development 9. The so called Prague Spring, the invasion of the armed forces of the Warsaw Pact, the beginning of the normalisation 10-11. The development of the Czechoslovak society in the 1970s and 1980s; various forms of opposition against the regime, the political and social reception of the Soviet Perestroika after 1985 12. The collapse of the totalitarian regime in 1989 13. Conclusion

Learning activities and teaching methods
One-to-One tutorial, Group discussion, Individual study, Lecture, Seminar
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 37 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 78 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 60 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 50 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15) - 15 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Course requires no special prior knowledge and skills.
teaching methods
One-to-One tutorial
Group discussion
Individual study
Lecture
Seminar
assessment methods
Test
Oral exam
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Skills demonstration during practicum
Recommended literature
  • Bracke, Maud. Which Socialism? Whose Detente?: West European Communism and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968. New York, Budapest, 2007. ISBN 978-963-7326-94-3.
  • Brandes, Detlef. Die Sudetendeutschen im Krisenjahr 1938. 2. Aufl. München : Oldenbourg, 2010. ISBN 978-3-486-59722-6.
  • Brandes, Detlef; Ivaničková, Edita; Pešek, Jiří. Erzwungene Trennung : Vertreibungen und Aussiedlungen in und aus der Tschechoslowakei 1938-1947 im Vergleich mit Polen, Ungarn und Jugoslawienherausgegeben für die Deutsch-Tschechische und Deutsch-Slowakische Historikerkommission von Detlef Brandes, Edita Ivaničková, Jiří Pešek. 1. Aufl. Essen : Klartext, 1999. ISBN 3-88474-804-1.
  • Cornwall, Mark; Evans, Robert John Weston. Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918-1948. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-726391-4.
  • Heimann, Mary. Czechoslovakia. The state that failed. New Haven, 2009.
  • Hoensch, Jörg K. Geschichte der Tschechoslowakei. Stuttgart, 1992. ISBN 3-17-011725-4.
  • ORZOFF, Andrea. Battle for the Castle: The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914-1948.. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-536781-2.
  • SCHMIDT-HARTMANN, E. ? WINTERS, S. B. (hrsg.). Großbritannien, die USA und die böhmischen Länder 1848?1938. München, 1991.
  • Vyšný, Paul. The Runciman mission to Czechoslovakia, 1938: Prelude to Munich. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ISBN 0-333-73136-0.


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