The submitted diploma thesis concerns itself with the reality and literary fiction of socialisation of the Czech village over the years 1948?1960, attempting to capture their features and mutual reflexions. Based on analysis of various sources (chronicles, personal effects, period press material) and period fiction, it follows the events and happenings which were typical of the time. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to actual events and the political and social development which affected the village. Space is given here to a micro-historical study of the life of a real farmer compared with that of a selected literary character from a socialism-building novel set in a village. The second part deals with developments in literature, introduces the socialism-building novel, analyses the selected work and reconstructs literary images. The third part compares the preceding chapters, looks for mutual likenesses and differences, touching upon the issue of deformation due to ideology.

Lithuanian literature of early socialistic realism is called normative literature: literary works were written according to certain set rules in order to meet the requirements of Soviet ideology. Comparisons of edits of the novel Po audros – Dideli įvykiai Naujamiestyje (1947-1948) by J. Dovydaitis, the novel Puodžiūnkiemis (1952) by A. Vienuolis and the novella Pikčiurnienė (1953) by I. Simonaitytė reveal the main norms of writing a Lithuanian novel of that period. In early socialistic realism period, literary works describing the past predominate. The ground of such pieces is based on a class conflict. In order to depict class fights scenes of highlighted clashes between antagonists and protagonists are created. Negative characters are kulaks, enemies of Soviet authorities – who serve for condemning the past. Positive characters are representatives of the new order, fighters for welfare of workers. A group of passive, politically inactive, characters comprise the intelligentsia whose depiction peculiarities were borrowed from Russian literature. The contrast of the past and the future becomes the base of composition of a literary work of early socialistic realism. The past is depicted in dark colours, turned into a legend, while the future is depicted in bright colours, often idealised. Literary works by A. Vienuolis, I. Simonaitytė and J. Dovydaitis are full of pathos, celebrating the new authorities, the role of communists as well as working individuals... [to full text]

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

This thesis deals with the personality of prominent lawyer and a political scientist Zdenek Mlynar during his tenure at the Institute of State and Law of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Mlynar was one of the leading figures and ideologues of the Prague Spring; in the first half of 1968 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and later he became its secretary. He was also one of the authors of the 'Action Programme' of the Communist Party, precisely of its political part. Nevertheless his ideological development was not straightforward; he started as a devoted ideologue and dogmatist in the 1950s to become a reformer in the second half of the 1960s. And during that whole time period Mlynar had been employed as a scientist at the Academy of Sciences in the field of the legal theory. For the purpose of this thesis was Mlynar's more than twelve-year long tenure at the Academy of Sciences is divided into three periods: a research assistantship between 1957 and 1959, his tenure as a head of the Department of Theory of State and Law between 1960 and 1966 and then the time of his work on the political reform in 1968, with a special attention being paid to the interdisciplinary team "Development of the political system in the socialistic society" which was initiated and...

The purpose of this diploma thesis is to analyze social-spatial structure of the town Most from the point of view of human ecology. The period under consideration is from 1991 to 2011. There is attempt to define local typology of the city, i.e. areas with similarities in the socioeconomic characteristic, its changes and also describe a transformation processes behind it. Trends in spatial differentiation of people are analyzed according to factor ecology. It means that there are used methods of multidimensional statistics like factor analysis and cluster analysis, because of defining the type and strength of certain factors which are specific to the urban areas.

Christlich orientierte Künstler sahen sich in der DDR angesichts eines staatlich propagierten Atheismus vor einen konfliktreichen Balanceakt gestellt. Bekennende Christen und Mitglieder einer Kirchengemeinde galten bereits durch ihre weltanschauliche Haltung wie natürlich zur Opposition. Trotz Repressalien und Zugeständnissen zum Staat blieben die Kirchen jedoch weiterhin eigenständige gesellschaftliche Akteure. Sie stellten mithin eine relativ geschützte Nische im System dar. Wie wirkte sich dieses Spannungsverhältnis auf das musikalische Schaffen von Komponisten mit christlicher Identität aus? Inwieweit war es diesen Komponisten im Rahmen avantgardistischer Musik möglich sich weltanschaulich positionierend bemerkbar zu machen, ohne Aufführungs-, Druckverbote und gravierende berufliche Benachteiligungen auf sich zu ziehen? Lässt sich ein bekenntnishafter Ausdruck heutzutage überhaupt noch als „absolutes“, musikalisches Bezugssystem nachweisen? Oder gründete sich das Verständnis dieser Musik vielmehr ausschließlich auf einem damaligen Konsens zwischen Komponist und Publikum? Diesen Fragen möchte die folgende Darstellung auf den Grund gehen. In ihrem Mittelpunkt steht das Schaffen des Komponisten Manfred Weiss (*1935), der seit 1959 als Lehrer für Tonsatz und Gehörbildung, später als Dozent und Professor für Komposition und Tonsatz an der Hochschule für Musik „Carl Maria von Weber“ in Dresden wirkte. Nach der Wende gestaltete er die Neuausrichtung dieser Institution als Prorektor entscheidend mit. Weiss komponierte bis zum Mauerfall vorwiegend Instrumentalwerke. Als bekennender Christ und Mitglied der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine wollte er nicht für die Schublade komponieren. Ihm war es ein Anliegen Musik für große Säle zu schreiben, um möglichst viele Menschen mit seiner Musik zu erreichen. Ziel der Betrachtung ist es, anhand drei seiner Werke exemplarisch das daraus resultierende Spannungsfeld nachzuzeichnen. Bei den in dieser Arbeit thematisierten Stücken handelt es sich um die Musik für zwölf Blechbläser und Pauken, die Sinfonische Fantasie und das Konzert für Orgel, Streichorchester und Schlagzeug, welche zwischen 1972 und 1976 komponiert worden sind: in einer politischen Phase also, die selbst ein Spannungsfeld aus Liberalisierungstendenzen und Restaurationsbestrebungen darstellt. Die drei Werke sind unmittelbar bezogen aufeinander entstanden. Darüber hinaus ist vor allem das Orgelkonzert ein Schlüsselwerk des Komponisten, für welches er 1977 den Hanns-Eisler-Preis des Rundfunks der DDR und den Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Kunstpreis der Stadt Dresden erhielt.

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The dissertation in hand is about the theological researches about the mission of the German Mennonite - Brethren - Church in Karaganda I Kasachstan from 1956 to 2000. The existing socialism with its atheistical values affected adversely the lives of the Christians and prevented them from missionary work. In spite of that mission was able to be practised. Experienced preachers and teachers in the church prepared the missionary work by instructing the Christians to be effective witnesses for the Lord. This was achieved by the training of young preachers. regular pronouncements of the Gospel and the work with children and young persons. The Christians retained this method until the middle of the 70ies when the regid laws concerning the missionary work were mitigated. Commited brothers. young persons, preachers and singers visited lonely Christians and churches in remote villages, had personal conversations with unbelievers and organized evangelizations. Members ofthe church were sent out as missionaries to erect parishes and carry out evangelizations / Missiology / M.Th.

This work focuses on foreign college students in former Czechoslovakia, coming from so-called developing countries. It portrays the students' daily life, their relationships and conflicts, as well as their coexistence alongside the Czechoslovak population. Firstly, it will be necessary for us to pinpoint the subjects the foreigners studied, and then identify university archives used as research sources (tentatively, sources are available from Charles University and the Universita 17. listopadu university in Prague). Besides their studies, this work focuses on the students' life at the dormitories, their conflicts, and their cultural and social life. The research will, naturally, have to be put into context of Czechoslovakia's strategies and ambitions in the international politics, especially in relation to the so- called developing countries. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The dissertation in hand is about the theological researches about the mission of the German Mennonite - Brethren - Church in Karaganda I Kasachstan from 1956 to 2000. The existing socialism with its atheistical values affected adversely the lives of the Christians and prevented them from missionary work. In spite of that mission was able to be practised. Experienced preachers and teachers in the church prepared the missionary work by instructing the Christians to be effective witnesses for the Lord. This was achieved by the training of young preachers. regular pronouncements of the Gospel and the work with children and young persons. The Christians retained this method until the middle of the 70ies when the regid laws concerning the missionary work were mitigated. Commited brothers. young persons, preachers and singers visited lonely Christians and churches in remote villages, had personal conversations with unbelievers and organized evangelizations. Members ofthe church were sent out as missionaries to erect parishes and carry out evangelizations / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th.