The presented thesis "Jiří Dienstbier - The Playwright' consists of two parts: part I. "Life without work is as no life outlines the authors biography, part II. introduces his samizdat work. The first part of the thesis presents the author as a person of a various professional interests, putting emphasis on his world-view formation. The second chapter deals with Dienstbiers work during the period his publication ban. The fundamental analysis of four theatre plays is preceded by a survey of the authors samizdat work represented by his publicistic texts. The thesis tries to render the connection between Dienstbiers dramatic work, associated purely with the period of so called "normalisation, and his life-long interest in political life and securing freedom.

The aim of this master thesis is to collect, organize and analyze references pertaining to Romania in the journals of Czechoslovak Samizdat and Czechoslovak Exile from the 1970's and 1980's. The paper focuses mostly on the analysis of the political situation and social development in Romania, as recorded in the articles of five Samizdat and two Exile Czechoslovak periodicals. Based on these sources, four main topics were selected for the comprehensive analysis. The result is a complex representation of the viewpoint of Czechoslovak Samizdat and Czechoslovak Exile regarding occurrences in the Socialist Republic of Romania, with particular emphasis on Czechoslovak acts of solidarity towards the Romanian population.

This work offers a complete critical overview of the samizdat magazine Sado-Maso1 published in Prague in the years 1983-1986. I tried to make a complete overview and characteristics of the magazine - the main themes of each issue, historical, ideological and literary context of publishing of the Sado-Maso magazine. I also mention publications which were connected with the S-M magazine - independent movies, other samizdat magazines and books. In the Attachment there is article bibliography (containing indexes), covers of the Sado-Maso individual issues, interviews with authors and conterporary witnesses, copies of ,StB' documentary where Sado-Maso magazine was mentioned connected with Klín and Satan Actions. Egon Bondy's essay Zaplaťpánbů za "underground" published exclusively in Sado- Maso Nr. 7 ½ is presented here in commented edition. The goal of this work is to provide information about a not well-known part of Czechoslovak underground culture - a part which still has not been paid much attention on the side of literary history. 1 The title ,Sado-Maso' and the abreviation ,S-M' are used in the same meaning. Keywords SAMIZDAT, MAGAZINES, SADO-MASO, JEN PRO BLÁZNY, OPIUM PRO LID, (ZEN)BUDDHISM, ECOLOGY, ANARCHISM, PSYCHOLOGY, PUNK, MOVIES OF THE SO-CALLED INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION, VISUAL ARTS,...

The diploma thesis deals with the relationship of the Solidarity movement with the Catholic Church in Poland until 1989 and the manifestations of this relationship in Czech samizdat periodicals. The researched periodicals are Lidové noviny, Informace o Charte 77 and Informace o církvi. The thesis presents the situation of the Polish civil opposition, especially in the 1980s. Much of the work is devoted to the Solidarity movement. Not only important milestones of this movement are presented here, but to some extent also its sociological profile. In addition to the civic opposition, the situation of the Catholic Church in Poland is described with emphasis on the circumstances and events that built the relationship between the Church and the stateas well as between the Church and the Solidarity movement. Due to the profile of the work, one of the chapters also deals with dissent in the then Czechoslovakia, both civic and Catholic. The researched periodicals have a samizdat character, so one of the chapters is dedicated to this form of written text and the author explains the reasons for choosing the three mentioned samizdat titles. Quantitative and qualitative analysis was used to find answers to research questions. Both analyzes and conditions created by the author for the inclusion of certain...

The degree work deals with the last century period of the 80s and 90s in the Pilsen region. Generally, it was time of lack of freedom and intolerance when all the state power was concentrated in one political party - the Czechoslovak Communist Party. With support of police this party manipulated with citizens' dignity, rights and thinking. Through description of some civic activities the work records groups of independent thinking in the Pilsen region. These activities were source of independent atmosphere; that's why they were supervised by the state power; their protagonists were monitored and their activities were supressed. In the work the independent areas are divided into chapters: church, music, scouting, camping, ecology. Another chapter focuses on the local dissent activities. Its members were predominantly from the above mentioned groups. Last chapter deals with unofficial publishing (samizdat) in this period. The aim of the degree work is to find (or at least to outline) the starting points and reasons that finally brought members of various groups (often diametrically opposite) together on the way of independent activities, dissent and unofficial publishing (samizdat).

5 Abstract Diploma thesis deals with the topic of the Belarusian national movement in the late Soviet period. After the end of the Stalinist terror in the 70th-80th of the 20th century civic movements have been reborn in the Soviet Belarus. A rising national movement continued the national- building process, started in 20th years with the program of Belorusisation, which was interuppted by Soviet government in the late 20th. The research subject of the thesis is the Belarusian national idea in samizdat periodicals during 1970-1985. Content analysis of samizdat journals allows to define and understand the period's thinking. Since Soviet samizdat at that time was the only media environment, independent from the ideology and censorship. The thesis as well includes analysis and development of Belarusian national idea from its beginning; characteristic of the political, economic and social context of the Soviet period; appearance and analysis of dissent and democratic activities in 1970-1985.

This diploma thesis is about the media representation of Ivan Martin Jirous - a famous poet, essayist, art critic and the theorist of the czech underground. Ivan Martin Jirous, nicknamed Magor, is especially famous for the fact that he closely worked with the rock band The Plastic People of the Universe, which was at the time of normalization in opposition to communist political party, and therefore its members were persecuted and imprisoned. On the other hand after the year 1989 he became important dissident and the poet. His life changes affect into his media image, which is the subject of this diploma thesis. The main aim of this thesis is to point the life of Ivan Martin Jirous on a personal, journalistic and artistic level based on the study the professional sources and literature. But also obtain a comprehensive historical and media analysis of media texts about Ivan Martin Jirous. The thesis is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter, which follows after the introduction, has descriptive character, and focuses on the person of Ivan Martin Jirous. It offers a brief overview of his life, his family, studies and jobs. The second one describes his publications and his other cultural activities. The third chapter includes a chronological list of media texts about Ivan Martin Jirous...

In the days of normalization there was a lot of groups in Czechoslovakia which were spreading the literature, which couldnt be published in the state's publishers. Manuscripts VBF was one of them. This edition was different because it focused on publishing collected works of three authors, who had been already not alive. Manuscript VBF was established on the beginning of seventieths by Bedřich Fučík and Vladimír Binar to publish Jakub Deml's writtings. The Jakub Deml's writtings was orginized to fourteen volumes. Thirteen of them were being published since 1978 to 1983, the fourteenth one wasn't finished. Meanwhile the decision came to publish also Jan Zahradníček's writtings and Jan Čep's writtings. Vladimír Binar prepared Bedřich Fučík's writtings after Bedřich Fučík had died. There was a side product called Bibliotheca of Manuscripts VBF, in which some works of the organizators and their friends were published. The thesis includes an annotative bibliography of the edition and an interview with Vladimir Binar. The purpose of this thesis was to make a bibliography of Manuscripts VBF, compile information about this edition and add a worthful witness of one of its organizators - Vladimír Binar.

<p>This dissertation analyzes experimental art movements in Hungary and the former Yugoslavia from 1968 to 1989, examining the variety of ways that artists responded to the ideological and practical failures of communism. I also deliberate on how artists, living in the specter of Marxist ideology, negotiated socio-political and cultural systems dominated by the state; how they undermined the moral consciousness that state socialism imposed from above; and how they created alternative ways of being in an era that had promised the opening of society and art but that failed that pledge. I suggest that some artists increasingly questioned the state's hegemony in everyday relationships, language, and symbols, and attempted to neutralize self-censorship and gain sovereignty over their own bodies and minds through "decision as art." The dissertation approaches authoritarian domination within the context of the artists' aesthetic choices, especially the development of conceptual and performance art as a mode of opposition. Deliberating on the notion of decision as central to the conceptualization and execution of resistance to the state, I focus on the alternative ways in which Yugoslavian and Hungarian artists made art in variegated forms and modes of ethical commitment. I argue that such art must be understood as an active decision to live in and through art while enduring political circumstance.</p> / Dissertation

The subject of the thesis "Selected samizdat magazines 1980 - 1987 (X Desítka (Ten)/Violit and Jednou nohou (One Foot)/Revolver Revue)" is to give a picture of how these magazines were created and how they functioned in the context of the time. The first part of the thesis gives a general description of historical events, especially the period surrounding Gustáv Husák's rise to become the head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the start of normalisation. This change brought about issues such as political cleansing and trials and the development of opposition. The second chapter is devoted to the phenomenon of Charter 77, its origins, the response to it by the party and state apparatus and what it meant to be a Charter 77 member in everyday life. The concept of samizdat is briefly defined in chapter three. The fourth and fifth chapters deal with the magazines themselves. In the sixth chapter they are compared mainly in terms of production and distribution.