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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

Diploma thesis "Position of the magazine Mladý svět in Czechoslovakia during the seventies and eighties" deals with the magazine for young people called Mladý svět. It gives a brief summary of its creation and development during the sixties and focuses on the period of seventies and eighties. It explains political and social situation of that period in Czechoslovakia, especially in area of mass media, and it particulary works with content of the magazine. It analysis the number and content of its columns, the way they were interpreted and development of these characteristics during the given period. It follows topics of the articles and its relation to readers of the magazine and communist regime and its institutions. It deals with the audience of Mladý svět and especially with its reactions and feedback it provided. Than it focuses on the censorship and the way the magazine was controlled, on the given regulations and imposed penalties. It attempts to explain reasons why Mladý svět become phenomenon of its era and why it had so unique position within similar mass media products.

The aim of this thesis is to introduce hops harvest phenomena as a special kind of agriculture aid in socialist Czechoslovakia. The aid consisted of secondary school students in the 1960s. The thesis describes organization of hops harvest, process of harvesting work and after-work activities of temporary staff. This thesis contains occurrences of August 1968 in Czechoslovakia. The harvesting work was complicated by raid of Soviet Army in this year.

Author's name: Martin Zárybnický School: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts Department of Pedagogy Program: Teaching Methodology Title: The Development of the System of Education in Czechoslovakia 1948 - 1989 Consultant: Doc. PhDr. Růžena Váňová, Csc. Number of pages: 79 Number of attachments: 0 Year: 2010 Key words: history, comprehensive school, Comunist Party, school system, education, laws, reports, 1948- 1989 The aim of this thesis is to describe the post-war and especially the 1948-1989 system of education in the light of the contemporary consequences. The key contents of this thesis is just the development and changes which were made in the school system by the Communist Party because of political and ideological reasons. Except of the aspect mentioned above, it is also focused on the development of the educational content, education of teachers and other related topics. As the whole, the thesis is a balanced report on this specific period of the history of education in the Czech republic, or more precisely Czechoslovakia.

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.

My master thesis examines lifestyle in the sixties of the 20th century as depicted on pages of Vlasta weekly magazine. Vlasta has been published since 1947 and thanks to the long continuity and grounding in the Czech environment, it is considered to be a traditional magazine. It has gained and maintained its broad network of readers throughout the years and is considered to be a leading magazine of Czechoslovak women during the communist era. In my thesis, I focus on the content analysis of the magazine in years 1960 - 1968. The thesis is set in a historical, social and media context. I emphasize the topics that are closely related to lifestyle. The areas that determine the lifestyle and on which I focus are, in particular, housing issues, workload, family relations, education, fashion, art and leisure time. I have also covered questions involving emancipation of women and their position in society. I also deal with the question whether the image of the lifestyle as presented by the Vlasta magazine matched the actual lifestyle of people in the sixties. In addition, I examine whether the magazine actually fulfilled the role of a weekly magazine for women, as it is well known that Vlasta was under the political supervision. The thesis is divided into two parts, the theoretical and analytical. The...

Title: JZD Chelčice - an example of successful collective farm period of "normalization"? Author: Martin Kopeček Department: Department of History and History Didactics Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Jiří Pokorný, CSc Abstract: The work deals with the Uniform agricultural cooperative in Chelčice in the normalization in Czechoslovakia. He tries to map its achievements and to answer the questions: what the nature of these accomplishments were (production, economy, presentation of achievements in contemporary media), on what is based (system and organization management, governing elites, economic concept, formal and informal relationships to the state and party authorities) and what were their historical context (esp. toward the village and the local agricultural production). Results are trying to contextualize contemporary, yet modest debate about the role of an agricultural cooperative in the normalization Key words: Chelčice - socialistist agriculture - United Agriculture Cooperative - collective farm - agriculture in socialist Czechoslovakia - affiliate production - khozraschyot - socialist entrepreneurship .

Thesis abstract The thesis deals with expert discussions on economic criminality in Czechoslovakia during the 1970s and 1980s. The first chapter introduces the issue in the macroeconomic and social context and outlines the dual way in which the practice of illegal enrichment was depicted in contemporary film and TV-series production. The second chapter introduces dominant authoritative discourse and its concept of economic crime as a phenomenon alien to the socialist regime. This view has also been reflected in the legislative adjustment, as well as party and government measures to dispose of the undesirable phenomenon. The following third chapter focuses on contemporary criminology science as an expert community, whose primary focus was on analyzing and proposing measures to address various crime-related problems. The institutional integration of the Research Institute of Criminology, the main platform of criminological research in the state, to the Prosecutor General's Office, and the influence of Marxist science on criminological methodology, reflected the authoritative discourse into professional discussions. The content analysis of twenty selected texts of non- public professional provenance shows in several areas the extent to which the influence of ideology was noticeable and, on the contrary, how...

The thesis focuses on the analysis of monetary reform in 1953. It describes the causes, the influence of Soviet advisers, course and consequences of the socialist economy. It is also handled with the problem of reaction of population and response party organs, in particular with regard to problems arising from lack of development of consumer goods industry and preference for heavy industry. Based on the hypothesis that the reform has become a tool to solve serious economic problems to complete the transition to a planned economy, and that was associated with a number of other economic arrangements (cancellation of a ticket system supply, the introduction of uniform retail prices).