Czech Society and Soviet Army 1968–1991. Some issues from the Soviet perspectives.

• Thesis title in Czech: Česká společnost a sovětská armáda 1968-1991. Problémy nazírané ze sovětské perspektivy
• Thesis title in English: Czech Society and Soviet Army 1968–1991. Some issues from the Soviet perspectives.
• Key words: Sovětská armáda, Československo, okupace, ruská perspektiva, historický mýtus, tisk, historická paměť.
• English key words: Soviet Army, Czechoslovakia, occupation, Russian perspective, historical myth, press, historical memory.
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2016/2017
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Programme Oral History and Contemporary History (24-KOHSD)
• Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Pavel Mücke, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 22.06.2017
• Date of assignment: 22.06.2017
• Date of electronic submission: 05.06.2019
• Date of proceeded defence: 12.09.2019
• Course: Thesis Defence (YMO101)
• Opponents: PhDr. Mgr. Petr Wohlmuth, Ph.D.

Preliminary scope of work

The paper will concern with the presence of the Soviet Army in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and 1991 and its impacts on the Czech society, particularly in places where Soviet Army units were stationed. It will examine various forms of contacts between the Czech population and Soviet soldiers at the municipal, institutional and personal levels, problems accompanying their mutual coexistence, and the practical implementation of the state policy of friendship a part of which was also an official transformation of the image of the Soviet Army from an occupying force into a friend. First and foremost, the work aims to capture social and political aspects in the broadest sense of the word (rather than military and strategic ones) of the presence of the Soviet Army in Czechoslovakia and to set the topic in the context of the social history of the Czech normalization. The main focus will be represented with the perspectives of Soviet officers and soldiers.