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Course, academic year 2021/2022
  
Modern Czech History - V832008
Title: Moderní české dějiny
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Education and Humanities (832)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2021 to 2021
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:2
E-Credits: summer s.:2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, C [HT]
Capacity: 30 / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Tuček Jan Mgr. Ph.D.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The course focuses on the problems of development and transformation of Czech society (in terms of social, economic and political) since the early 19 century to the ČSR.
Last update: Tuček Jan (17.06.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Active participation in lessons: 50%

Test: 50%

Last update: Čapek Adamec Martin (26.01.2022)
Literature -

R: KÁRNÍK, Z., Malé dějiny československé (1867-1939), Praha: Dokořán, 2008, ISBN 978-80-7363-146-8

R: LNĚNIČKOVÁ, J., České země v době předbřeznové: 1792-1848, Praha: Libri, 1999, ISBN 80-85983-27-3

R: VYKOUKAL, J., Litera, B., Tejchman, M., Východ: vznik, vývoj a rozpad sovětského bloku 1944-1989, Praha: Libri, 2000, ISBN 80-85983-82-6

A: GEBHART, J., KUKLÍK, J., Dramatické i všední dny protektorátu, Praha: Themis, 1996, ISBN 80-85821-35-4

A: VEBER, V., Osudové únorové dny 1948, Praha: NLN, 2008, ISBN 978-80-7106-941-6

Last update: Čapek Adamec Martin (26.01.2022)
Teaching methods -

Lectures

Last update: Čapek Adamec Martin (26.01.2022)
Syllabus -

1) What is modern history? Definition of the main concepts.

2) Modernization – from agrarian society to industrialization and urbanization I.

3) Modernization – from agrarian society to industrialization and urbanization II.

4) Modernization – the birth of modern nationalism (National revival or the formation of “something” completely new?)

5) Industrial Revolution, capitalism and Czech society I.

6) Industrial Revolution, capitalism and Czech society II.

7) Formation of civil society, parliamentarism and constitutionalism in the Austrian monarchy in the mid-19th century I.

8) Formation of civil society, parliamentarism and constitutionalism in the Austrian monarchy in the mid-19th century II.

9) From Palacký to Masaryk. Austroslavism, nationalism and the politicization of public life.

10) Czechs and Germans

11) From Palacký to Masaryk. The dispute over manuscripts, The ideal of humanity, The dispute over the meaning of Czech history.

12) The emergence of an independent Czechoslovak Republic; coincidence or inevitability? Many interpretations.

13) The Polish and Hungarian coups in confrontation with the Czechoslovak one.

14) Economy, society and politics of the First Republic.

Last update: Tuček Jan (17.06.2025)
Learning resources -

Library:

www.nkp.cz

www.mlp.cz

Last update: Čapek Adamec Martin (26.01.2022)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

Orientate themselves individually in the professional terminology of historical science and the historical development of modern Czech society.

Carry out interdisciplinary communication.

Last update: Čapek Adamec Martin (26.01.2022)
Registration requirements -

None

Last update: Čapek Adamec Martin (26.01.2022)
 
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