- Constitutional aspects of the termination of the Czechoslovak Federation The thesis deals with problems of constitutional aspects relating to termination of the Czechoslovak Federation, which was abolished on 31.12. 1992 I have chosen this theme because I am interested in this theme since the first grade of my studium at the Law faculty. I had better access to this theme after the attendance of Scientific seminar leaded by Doc. Gronský called Slovakia in constitutional history of Czechoslovakia. The thesis uses sources available to students of Law faculty (monography, collections, university textbooks, texts of laws, articles, stenograph records, university lectures). The thesis is grounded on the synthesis of many sources with emphasis on consistent citing sources of the original authors. The thesis is composed of three chapters, which are divided into subchapters. These subchapters contain parts. In introduction I set the aim of thesis to describe the aspects of termination Czechoslovakia. For better context is in thesis genesis and development of the federation. Chapter one consists of two subchapters. There are described conditions of formation of Czechoslovak state. Chapter two consists of four subchapters, which describe Constitutional development of Czechoslovakia (1918-1989) with focus on...

This theses Castle Lnáře in 20th century collectively describes important events of this long term. It's aim is to present a concise and comprehensive overview of what is happening at the castle in 20th century. In general, a brief historical introduction, explains the context of property and structural and technical parameters of the stronghold and castle Lnáře. The work is based primarily on archival sources, it drawn from the Národní archiv, fond Státní památková správa, Archiv Bezpečnostních složek and the local archives of the castle Lnáře. Important sources were a chronicle of the city Lnáře and mentioned literature as well. In individual chapters are chronologically described events at the castle Lnáře. 20th century brings with it many major changes which the castle Lnáře affected significantly. At the beginning of the twentieth century manor Lnáře flourished. The situation was turned of land reform in the period around the 1924th . The estate Lnáře lost a lot of lands and because of the crisis was in a difficult economic situation. The estate was sold to Karel Bondy. This businessman fell into debt and Lnáře was fell into execution. Then in the auction bought the estate Lnáře JUDr. Jindrich Vanicek. Then the manor was confiscated by Nazi Germans and a few years later the communist...

Resumé The Currency Reform in Czechoslovakia in 1953 The currency reform in Czechoslovakia in 1953 was significant because of many reasons. People lost their long-term savings, they understood the reform as theft of their honestly earned money. Communist propaganda could not change the people's feelings. The confidence in bank savings and life insurance was undermined. The result of the currency reform was cancellation of rationing but in fact the standard of living of Czechs and Slovaks dropped. In centrally controlled economy it was impossible to overcome the supply problems, which played into the hands of the shadow economy. Old-age and disability pensioners were also in difficult financial situation because they lost their income from their bound deposits and life insurance. The biggest group affected by the currency reform was labour class. That was the reason why the planned increase in industrial production failed. The monetary reform was a necessary condition for the continuation of extensive development of heavy industry, in the coming years to allow increased investments in this sector. Further, there have been general assumptions, that the corporate debts would be removed, however in contrary the debts substantially increased. Bankruptcy was unthinkable for many political reasons, and loans were...

The topic of this diploma thesis is the Czechoslovak-Chilean diplomatic and business relations in the 1960s - 1990s. Even though I am focussing on the period 1960s - 1990s Sixties, I decided to include in this thesis also the previous periods from 1945, which were in my opinion very important for a greater understanding of the whole topic. Whereas it is impossible to study this topic without any general introduction about the history of the Czechoslovak diplomacy, the first chapter is dedicated to it. The next part of the thesis is focused on the diplomatic and business relationships of the mentioned countries. This part of the thesis is divided into four periods which are determined by specific years, which were critical for the history of the Czechoslovak-Chilean diplomatic relationships. As the Chilean-Czechoslovak institute was hugely important in the history of the Czechoslovak-Chilean relationship, it has been included in this thesis as a separate chapter.

Since the cultural turn and the publication of André Lefevere's Translation, Rewriting and the Manipulation of Literary Fame (1992), the field of translation studies has increasingly focused on the question of ideological influences in the translation process and the subsequent textual or paratextual censorship. While a broad range of studies identify a number of alterations, omissions or disappearances in the translation process under totalitarian or otherwise restrictive regimes (Fabre, 2007; Merino & Rabadán, 2002; Thomson-Wohlgemuth, 2007 among others), only a handful of them researches censorship of non-normative sexualities and identities (Baer, 2011b; Gorjanc, 2012; Linder, 2004). This thesis complements this still largely under-explored subject through an insight into the censorship of male same-sex affection in former Czechoslovakia and the present-day Czech Republic and Slovakia. Focusing on two key periods of the two countries' history, the communist era of 1948-1989 and the current democratic period that started with the Velvet Revolution, the project compares a series of consecutive translations in order to uncover possible patterns of censorship. The corpus of this work consists of Czech and Slovak translations of Shakespeare's sonnets, a poetry collection known for its potential for a homoerotic reading which became subject of controversy almost from the moment of its first known publication in 1609. This project utilises a theoretical background borrowed from poststructuralism and queer theory, chiefly represented by the works of Foucault (1978), Sedgwick (1985, 1990) and Halperin (2002). One of the key questions that these scholars attempted to answer is how to successfully conduct research into the history of human sexuality, given the fact that its conceptualisation changes across temporal and spatial axes. It is based on the assumption that it is not possible to research the history of translation of non-normative sexualities without an awareness of these changing perceptions of the very basic terms like homosexuality. The key aim of this thesis is to introduce the theoretical frameworks from queer studies into a historical enquiry within the field of translation studies in order to test this hypothesis. The methodological framework for this work was designed to suit the large corpus used for this project, encompassing fifteen translations of a collection of 154 sonnets. It consists firstly of a quantitative methodology devised in order to uncover the potential shifts in the gender of the recipient of the sonnets, which is one of the crucial elements in the reading of the corpus as a collection of amorous poetry written by a man for another man or men. The second stage consists of a qualitative analysis of the translations which focuses on textual, contextual and paratextual features that will complement the macro-level insight of the quantitative part with micro-level observations. The aim of this study is to uncover patterns of censorship related to same-sex affection and desire in the sonnet collection, place them into their respective historical context and finally to answer the question of whether there is a correlation between the socio-political changes in Czechoslovakia, the shifting conceptualisation of homosexuality throughout the various periods, and the strategies applied in Czech and Slovak sonnet translations.

Work on relations between developing countries (LDCs) and the socialist countries has tended to focus on the Soviet Union because of its superpower status. This thesis adopts an alternative approach by examining relations between LDCs and a smaller, but still important country; because the absence of 'superpower' attitudes and concerns permits a less exclusive identification of the factors involved in bilateral economic relations between LDCs and a planned socialist economy. The immediate post-Stalinist era in Eastern Europe coincided with the post-colonial era in the Third World. Because Western literature in this period often imputed sinister motives to socialist countries 5 efforts to develop relations with the new states, this thesis has analysed (with the benefit of two decades of hindsight) the relative importance of political and economic factors in the evolution of Czechoslovak/LDC economic relations. Qualitative analysis was reinforced where appropriate with statistical correlations between economic variables (including delta coefficients) and an index of UN voting patterns developed to approximate bilateral Czechoslovak/LDC 'political affinity'. The comprehensive approach adopted contributed significantly to placing specific aspects of bilateral relations between Czechoslovakia and a core group of 41 LDCs in a broader and therefore enhanced perspective. A number of selected but interrelated issues were examined - inter alia, historical antecedents; the direction, composition, and stability of trade; payments; politics; the terms of trade; barriers to trade; development assistance; and the arms trade - within the analytical framework of the 'intensity' approach to foreign trade. It was found that trade with LDCs has been historically concentrated on a small number of the larger economies, consisting of an exchange of Czechoslovak manufactures for raw materials or semi-processed products. The overall trade share of LDCs has declined slowly but steadily since the early sixties. Relations in the period 1960-1975 appear to have been based primarily on commercial considerations. World prices are allegedly preferred in trade, entrepots are used, development assistance is extended with domestic interests in mind, etc. Political biases are apparent only on the broader level: e.g. the preponderance of India and Egypt in trade with LDCs.

The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that centrally- planned economies are characterized by what is called a bias towards absorption of natural resource intensive products (NRP) which is said to affect in turn the commodity structure of their foreign trade. While the study includes a detailed analysis of foreign trade structures and the absorption of NRP by final consumers, it is the intermediate demand for NRP and its determinants which are emphasized. Following the suggestions in the literature that the technologies used by the centrally- planned and market-type economies are different, the role of technology in determining intermediate demand for NRP has been examined in detail. Bias is defined here in terms of inter-country differences and the present comparison involves a case-study of Czechoslovakia as a centrally-planned economy and Austria as a market-type economy based on an input-output model. The use of the input-output model in inter- national comparisons of production and use of commodities has been criticized on the following grounds: (1) The distinction between technology and substitution is ignored in the model. (2) International differences in relative prices are normally ignored or assumed away in empirical work. (3) The comparisons may be severely affected by imperfections of input-output tables. This study attempts to answer the above criticism in an original way. New methods of sensitivity analysis were designed to test for the existence of the 'triangular' and other 'fundamental' properties of the technological matrices. In addition, the assumption of temporal stability of input-output coefficients is relaxed and an attempt is made to distinguish between technology and substitution with the help of the RAS method. Further analysis of the impact of relative prices on input-output flows was derived from an analysis of indirect taxation. The main conclusion of this study is that Czechoslovakia had a considerable NRP import bias which was primarily due to the pro-NRP absorption bias of final consumers. However, it is unlikely that 'excessive' aggregate demand for imports originated in 'NRP-biased' technology. This empirical analysis provides strong evidence that the production processes with regard to the use of NRP were highly similar in both countries.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.