Course: Czechoslovak History of the 20th Century

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Course title Czechoslovak History of the 20th Century
Course code KHV/CDCB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hajšmanová Jaroslava, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Formation of Czechoslovakia 2. First Czechoslovak Republic and its political and social organization in the 1920s 3. First Czechoslovak Republic and its political and social organization in the 1930s 4. Life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Slovak Republic, the internal and external resistance 5. Economic, social and political development in the years 1945-1948 6. February 1948 7. Political trials, colectivisation 8. Political, economic, social and cultural development in the 1950s 9. Political, economic, social and cultural development in the 1960s 10. The Prague Spring, the invasion of the Warsaw Pact 11. Normalisation - political and social development 12. Political, economic, social and cultural development in the 1980s 13. The Velvet Revolution in 1989

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Contact hours - 39 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 55 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to describe the basic problems of the Czechoslovak history in the 20th century
Skills
to analyse on the basic level the problems of the modern Czechoslovak history
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to characterise the basic tendencies of the political, economic, social and cultural development of the Czechoslovak history in the 20th century
to describe the causes of the end of the First Czechoslovak Republic
to describe the causes of the communist putsch in February 1948
to characterise the events of the Prague Spring
to explain the terms normalisation, dissent, Velvet Revolution
to explain the political context of the fall of the Communist régime in 1989
Skills
to analyse the most important events of the Czechoslovak history in the 20th century
to analyse individually the Czechoslovak history in the 20th century in a wider context of the history of the Central Europe
to interpret the turning moments of the Czechoslovak history of the 20th century
to reflect critically the important historiographic books concerning the Czechoslovak history of the 20th century
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Self-study of literature
Skills
Individual study
Competences
Individual study
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Skills
Oral exam
Competences
Oral exam
Recommended literature
  • Gebhart, Jan - Kuklík, Jan. Dramatické i všední dny Protektorátu. Praha, 1996.
  • Kalinová, L. Sociální vývoj Československa 1969-1989. Praha, 1998.
  • Kaplan, Karel. Kořeny československé reformy 1968. I.-II., Československo a rozpory v sovětském bloku, Reforma trvale nemocné ekonomiky. Brno : Doplněk, 2000. ISBN 80-7239-061-9.
  • Kaplan, Karel. Kronika komunistického Československa. Doba tání 1953-1956. Brno : Barrister & Principal, 2005. ISBN 80-86598-98-5.
  • Kaplan, Karel. Národní fronta 1948?1960. Vyd. 1. Praha : Academia, 2012. ISBN 978-80-200-2074-1.
  • Kárník, Z. České země v éře První republiky (1918-1938). Díl první, Vznik, budování a zlatá léta republiky (1918-1929). 1. vyd. Praha : Libri, 2000. ISBN 80-7277-027-6.
  • Kárník, Zdeněk. České země v éře První republiky (1918-1938). Díl druhý, Československo a české země v krizi a v ohrožení (1930-1935) /. Praha, Libri, 2002.
  • Kárník, Zdeněk. České země v éře První republiky (1918-1938). Díl třetí, O přežití a o život (1936-1938) /. Praha, Libri, 2003.
  • KMEŤ, N., MARUŠIAK, J. (eds.). Slovensko a režim normalizácie. Prešov, 2002.
  • KOCIAN, J., DEVÁTÁ, M. (eds.). 1948: únor 1948 v Československu: nástup komunistické totality a proměny společnosti. Praha, 2011.
  • Otáhal, Milan. Opoziční proudy v české společnosti 1969-1989. Praha : Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7285-137-9.
  • Pullmann, Michal. Konec experimentu : přestavba a pád komunismu v Československu. Vyd. 1. Praha : Scriptorium, 2011. ISBN 978-80-87271-31-5.


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