This thesis focuses on the plans of the Regional National Committee in České Budějovice regarding planning for agriculture in the South Bohemian Region between the years 1949 and 1958. It was the collection named Krajský národní výbor České Budějovice 1949 - 1958, stored in the State Regional Archive in Třeboň, which set the title and time frame for the presented thesis. The circumstances that led to violent collectivization and to establishing of collective farms after the communist takeover in 1949 are no less important. This is why the thesis covers also some events of the Second World War and after it. Violent collectivization fundamentally affected the existing way of farming, caused enormous material damage, destroyed the relationship between farmers and soil that had been built for centuries, eliminated peasantry and fatally affected many human lives. The thesis is based not only on archival materials but also on academic literature concerning farming and political situation. The aim of the thesis is to outline the contemporary idea of planning for agriculture in this agricultural region held by regional representation, the vision for regional development and also to attempt to confront it with contemporary reality. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The most important one is the last one which contains the plans and results of agriculture in South Bohemia during the examined period.

The diploma thesis describes the various aspects of an advertising in the period of Czechoslovakia. It follows the continuity of an interwar advertising culture in the cultural and historical context of the time. Furthermore it poses a different beliefs of advertising culture compared to today on the one hand and a very modern approach of advertising through the use of new media, advertising tactics, the amount of advertising studios or innovative design on the other hand. On the theoretical background is established an interpretation of selected product advertising posters to reveal unifying characteristics of poster creation of the time. At the final part is searched for a continuity and use of the topic in present art education.

The diploma thesis being submitted deals with the issue of applying managerial strategies and their economic impacts on the České Budějovice pencil factory within the years 1945-1948. The core sources for this analysis were mostly annual reports and operation reports, meeting minutes, statistical reports, correspondence, and sources of private nature. The thesis builds upon the methodological bases of business history. The most prominent pencil industry people of the post-war era became the main subject of the research. Based on the business strategies of these managers, the following parts of the thesis then focused on economic evolution, on which they applied both vertical and horizontal comparisons. The advertising activities of these pencil factories or the negotiations with the former subsidiaries represented by the Hardmuth family did not go unnoticed either. The key contribution of this thesis lies in its analysis of the nationalization process followed by the centralization of the Czechoslovakian pencil industry.

Electrification (or now rare and obsolete electrization), carried out in Czechoslovakia primarily in the interwar years (1918-1939) has gone down in history as a symbol of the construction of a modern independent Czechoslovak state and its democratic society, encapsulating its overall, predominantly building, ethos. Electrification was based on the expertise, invention and high educational standards of the country's electrical engineering elite that approached this particular task as a fully formed group (especially in the period starting from the last third of the 19th century) and as a particularly excellently organized one in terms of its professional unions, specialist scientific knowledge and potential use of its expertise in industrial plants and production centres for electrification. Its key platform was the Czechoslovak Electrical Engineering Union (Elektrotechnický svaz československý, Czech acronym ESČ, 1919), an association closely cooperating with the state authorities, primarily the Ministry of Public Industry and its State Power Council, with an agency that represented the country's vital standardization base and which soon grew to be the powerful Czechoslovak Standardization Society (Československá normalizační společnost, known under the Czech acronym ČSN, 1920); the ESČ also...

(in English): The aim of the thesis was to try to analyze the various generational experiences in the local space in their relation to the identity and mentality of persons born in different time periods. The work explores one particular village in southern Bohemia. The first chapters deal with the theoretical foundations of the work, the history of the village, the development in Czechoslovakia and the development in the South Bohemian countryside. The following chapters focus on childhood, education, agriculture and industry, changing into state socialism, trying to uncover the possible emerging different generational experiences.

The dissertation concerns with the restrictions on the church life by the State of Czechoslovakia during the years of 1945-1989 with a special regard to restrictions on the celebration of liturgy in South Bohemian Region. Facts that have been gathered from the literature and primarily from the secretaries for the church affairs reports, that have been preserved in the archive funds of Regional National Committee and the South Bohemian Regional National Committee, prove convincingly that the state authorities imposed restrictions on life, pastoral ministry, and the church liturgical celebrations systematically.

Doctoral Dissertation PhDr. Kathleen Brenda Geaney English-Speaking Communists, Communist Sympathizers and Fellow- Travellers and Czechoslovakia in the Early Cold War (Anglicky mluvící komunisté, komunističtí sympatizanti a podporovatelé a Československo v počátcích studené války) Abstract The dissertation is a study of some of those people with Communist Party affiliations and fellow-travellers, who journeyed behind the Iron Curtain to see for themselves what life was like in the new people's democracy. The research focuses on Czechoslovakia as a tourist destination for a surprising number of anglophones in the early years of the Cold War. It argues that Soviet experience served as a best practices model for officialdom in Prague. This was modified where necessary to take into account the lessons learnt, national particulars, and the new geopolitical context. In both situations, foreigners were evaluated in terms of importance and potential as far as the communist cause was concerned. Key words: Czechoslovakia, communism, Cold War, English-speaking foreigners, hospitality techniques

This thesis is devoted to the spa fashion and clothing in Czechoslovakia, particularly in the years 1924 - 1930. On the basis of sources and comparing the findings from the literature is reflected here penchant for spa clothing in the years 1924-1930 in Poděbrady. The entire work is divided into five sections. The first part focuses on the history of spas in Bohemia and in the context of Europe. The second part of the work attends the idea of the 1st Republic ideal of beauty. In the third section deals with the everyday venerable fashion during the given time. The fourth part introduces the readers to the history of the town, emergence of spa. It also deals with some points of interest about this local spa and, of course with spa advertising. The last part reflects the specific spa dress codes in Poděbrady. The work aims to describe local fashion site of this small town. The work also contains annexes, photographs that illustrate contemporary fashion ambience in provincial spa. The main source for the thesis was the fund of the Spa Poděbrady which is deposited at the Museum of the Labe Region. Key words: Fashion, history of spa, Czechoslovakia, period 1924 - 1930, ideal of beaty, photography, importace of fashion, dandy, countryside,

1 Abstract This MA thesis discusses contemporary US literature in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1956 in order to see how the US was represented through the chosen American writers and their works. The first two chapters look at how the parallel canon was established, both from historical and theoretical perspective. The third chapter discusses Langston Hughes as the representative of American poetry. It shows how Hughes was used to draw attention to racial inequality in the US. Howard Fast as the superstar of the "Czechoslovak America" is the focus of the fourth chapter. The cases of both Fast and Hughes show that contemporary US authors published in Czechoslovakia at that time were chosen for the way they depicted the US racial and social inequality and the repression of political opposition, and identified themselves as members of the so called progressive America. Reading Hughes and Fast from the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain contributes to Czech scholarship on the 1950s and adds new perspectives to the contemporary reconsiderations of American leftist writers.

The thesis tries to process a topic of bodybuilding phenomenon in the wider context of the ideal body formation in modern age. Bodybuilding is understood as a specific socio-cultural phenomenon closely tied to a modern society and its historical development. Beyond the bodybuilding the work also deals with an analysis of the contemporary social body theory with focus on the domestic discourse and subsequently also with an analysis of discursive formation modern physicality from the Enlightenment till the 20th century. The main focus is put on the understanding of changes characteristic for the modern society in context of the modernisation project continuity. The objective is to describe a history of bodybuilding within the outlined process of modernization, as well as to compare various alternative conception of the ideal of physicality in the "Fordism Modernity", where a special attention is focused on the analysis of bio political discourse in Communist dictatorship. The remaining part processes a historical development of the bodybuilding movement in Czechoslovakia, where the main emphasis is put on placing the Czechoslovakia bodybuilding into the postulated concept, including individual historical events. Key words: Social history; Bodybuilding; Social Theory; History of the Body; Subculture;...