The aim of this thesis is to conduct research of entire history of Jivák settlement in Central Bohemian region since its establishment in 1926 to the year of 2016. Importance of so-called normalization and transformation era will be stressed in this work. The author will also try to track certain matches or disagreements in the area of everyday life, coexistence with other settlers or participation on settlement's events based on interviews conducted with settlers of various age. Another aim of this work is to compare settlement's social life before and after the year 1989. Last but not least, author will try to find out, whether Jivak settlement served as a shelter from political and social reality in 1948-1989 Czechoslovakia. Key Words: second homes, settlement, Czechoslovakia, interpersonal relations, oral history

This thesis is a contribution to the study of the Czechoslovakian exile in France with a special focus on the years 1968-1989, or the so-called Normalization. The aim is to answer certain questions that can only be approached through oral history. Thus, on the basis of interviews with six different narrators, we will try to understand the reasons and conditions of their departure before focusing on the establishment of their new life without reference points in Paris, far from home but also in contact with other migrants. As exile has shaped our narrators, special attention will be paid to questions of identity and memory. Keywords: Exile, Czechoslovakia, France, Communism, Normalization, Oral History.

The aim of this essay is to study the lives of Bosnian refugees who were forced into fleeing their homeland and integrate into the Swedish culture and society.  During the period of 1992 to 1996, approximately 2.2 million Bosnian citizens were forced to flee to other countries due to the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some of the citizens were internally displaced in nearby regions or border countries. Other refugees sought residence in different parts of the world. The Swedish Migration agency granted residency permits to 50,000 Bosnians between the years of 1993 to 1994.1  In order to accomplish the purpose of the essay, four Bosnian refugees who arrived in Sweden during the 1990s have been interviewed. The four interviewees generated answers which are then compared to previous research in this field. Written history tends to describe people in power as well as warfare in general. Therefore, by using oral history as a method in this study to investigate Bosnian refugees ́experiences, a more significant perspective of how they experienced integration in the Swedish society is more likely to appear. With their experiences and memories that they share with us, one will understand the life of a refugee.  This essay entails a qualitative approach where we conducted semi-structured interviews with Bosnian refugees. The theory we used to analyze the results is an integration model developed by Jose Alberto Diaz who studied integration in Sweden.  As a result, this study shows various factors that affect the individual ́s integration into the Swedish society. For example, the personal integration, housing integration, language skills, meaningful employment and livelihood, social contacts and the treatment of the authorities. These are some of the factors that affect the integration of immigrants.

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This diploma thesis from the field of contemporary history evaluates the effect of being a publicly well-known and widely popular person on the overall functioning of their family and individual life stories of other family members. The closest relatives of the actor Petr Čepek were selected for the research purposes of this thesis. The methodological framework of the thesis is composed of the family memory, or the collective memory of Maurice Halbwachs. Petr Čepek was a significant persona of the second half of the twentieth century in the field od Czechoslovak theatre and film. He was at the origin of the phenomenon of Činoherní klub and played an active role in the November 1989 events. His premature death is connected with the film Lekce Faust. The thesis maps out the life stories of individual members of his family, which also serves as an insight into the family life side by side a popular person. .

The diploma thesis is focused on the town of Habry and its everyday life. It deals with the life changes of local inhabitants in the period from the late sixties to the present. The main objective is to report on the changes in everyday life as they are perceived and reflected and evaluated by the local inhabitants. The thesis focuses on the fundamental topics of life in countryside. The research focuses on both the areas of employment and the closely related themes of transport, civic amenities, leisure time and important historical moments. The thesis is aimed at the changes that occurred in these areas in Habry during the concerned period. This thesis is based on field research, which is based on the method of oral history and acquired semi-structured interviews with local inhabitants. The practical part is preceded by a theoretical part, which proceeds from professional and thematic literature. The sources of information in this area also include the locally focused press and literature, including archive documents maintained by the Habry Municipal Office. Key words: Habry, everyday life, history, research, oral history

In this thesis, I present the now non-existent company Liberecké automobilové závody. Based on available sources, I describe the circumstances surrounding its creation, gradual development into one of the most important enterprises in socialist Czechoslovakia, and the reasons for its unsuccessful adaptation to the transformation of a centrally planned economy in a market economy, which gradually led to its eventual demise. By combining the method of oral history and the study of written sources, I capture the daily working life of witnesses - the former employees of the plant in Mnichovo Hradiště, and find out how, from today's perspective, they remember this period of their lives. Key words: LIAZ, oral history, enterprise, plant, socialistic competiton

The aim of the thesis is a reflection of the phenomenom military service in the Czechoslovak People's Army in the seventies of the twenties century in the men's collective memory who fulfilled military service in these times. The research was based on a narrative analysis data which have been obtained during oral history interviews with contemporary witnesses. Then, the data were compared with written historical sources. The thesis is focused on a soldier's everyday routine in the military service. The empirical part is focused on the reflection of the military service from the view of narrators.

Die Transformationsforschung hat seit dem Zusammenbruch der staatssozialistischen Herrschaftsregime in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa nach 1989/90 eine erhebliche Konjunktur erfahren. Sozialwissenschaftler:innen bearbeiteten in den 1990er-Jahren innerhalb großer Drittmittelprojekte die Ursachen und tiefgreifenden Folgen von Systemwechseln und der anschließenden Transformation. Sie lieferten eine Fülle von qualitativen und quantitativen Daten. Erst seit etwa fünf Jahren beginnen zeithistorisch Forschende damit, die Transformationszeit seit 1989 zu untersuchen und zu historisieren. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Pfade die Transformationsforschung in der historischen Rückschau beschritt und welche Möglichkeiten sich für die zeithistorische Forschung bieten, sich mit der Transformationszeit nach 1989/90 auseinanderzusetzen. Ein wesentliches Desiderat, so die These, bildet die Verbindung von Makro- und Mikroebenen, das heißt, Perspektiven „von oben“ und „von unten“ miteinander zu verknüpfen. Diese Herangehensweise ergibt sich beispielsweise aus einer deutlichen Divergenz zwischen den öffentlichen Narrativen und den individuellen Erfahrungen in Ostdeutschland, aber auch in den ostmittel- und südosteuropäischen Staaten. Um verstärkt Perspektiven von unten zu erhalten, müssen neue Akteur:innengruppen eingebunden werden. Gleichzeitig gilt es, die Quellenbasis zu vergrößern. Hier bieten sich die umfangreichen empirischen Forschungen der 1990er Jahre zur Sekundäranalyse und quellenkritischen Begutachtung an. In Verbindung mit Oral History-Untersuchungen sowie der Öffnung von Archiven können neue Fragestellungen bearbeitet werden, die sich auf individuelle Erfahrungen, Gestaltungsideen von Gesellschaft sowie den Alltag fokussieren. Insbesondere dann, wenn die Entwicklungen und Pfade vor 1989/90 berücksichtigt werden, kann es gelingen, den Transformationsprozess als Gestaltungsprozess zu verstehen.

Die Disziplin der Transformationsgeschichte, die sich der theoretischen und empirischen Untersuchung von Systemwechseln verschrieben hat, bemüht sich, neben dem Anspruch einer transnationalen und interdisziplinären Betrachtung transformationsgeschichtlicher Phänomene, zunehmend um eine alternative Geschichtsschreibung ‚von unten‘, fernab staatlicher oder elitärer Betrachtungen. Unumgänglich sind hierbei Methoden der Oral-History, der mündlichen Befragung von Zeitzeug:innen, um einen solchen Perspektivwechsel zu vollziehen. So widmet sich auch der vorliegende Forschungsbeitrag dieser Methode zu und fragt im Interview nach den Erinnerungen an die DDR und den Umbruch 1989/90. Entgegen den bisherigen Forschungsprojekten zur DDR-Erinnerung wird dabei eine Kohorte untersucht, die keinerlei persönliche Erfahrungen vorweisen kann: die ostdeutsche Nachwendegeneration, d.h. all jene, die nach 1990 als Kinder ehemaliger DDR-Bürger:innen geboren wurden und den Erinnerungen ebendieser sowie Fragmenten der Vergangenheit unmittelbar begegnen. Zu untersuchen galt daher, wie sich der Prozess der DDR-Erinnerung bei ihnen gestaltet. Anders als angenommen, ist eine klare Positionierung zur DDR-Vergangenheit für die interviewte Person aufgrund fehlender Selbsterfahrung schwierig. Damit einher geht die Einnahme eines eher kritischen Standpunktes zu vermittelten Erinnerungsbildern in Familie und Schule sowie der Wunsch nach Zukunftsorientierung. Der Beitrag soll schließlich dazu anregen, bei der erinnerungskulturellen und -politischen Aufarbeitung der DDR die Nachwendegeneration miteinzubeziehen.