Central European and Czech History - JTB323

• Title: Central European and Czech History
• Czech title: České a středoevropské dějiny
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 16 (11)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Šárka Boušková Vašíčková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Šárka Boušková Vašíčková, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Boušková Vašíčková, Ph.D. (22.09.2021)

The objective of this course is to familiarize the student with the most representative events of Czech history. By studying the events, students will get to know not only the political changes of a country, but also how history is represented through the different European countris. With this information the students will be able to produce their opinions about the past, present and future of Bohemia and apply this knowledge to further topics related to the present political situation in different countries.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Bc. Jana Poskerová (13.10.2022)

The Final Test completion, 2 absences max.

"Hodnocení studentů je závazně založeno na škále písmen A-F, která vychází z Opatření děkanky číslo 17/2018 (https://www.fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-172018) a je následně upřesněno Opatřením děkanky číslo 20/2019 (https://fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-20/2019)."

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Boušková Vašíčková, Ph.D. (22.09.2021)

CÍLEK, Václav, Prague Between History and Dreams, Bloomington, 2004.

ČORNEJ, Petr, POKORNÝ, Jiří, A brief history of the Czech lands to 2004, Prague: Práh, 2005.

COSMAS of Prague, The Chronicle of the Czechs, transl. Lisa Wolverton, Washington 2009.

ČORNEJ, Petr. Fundamentals of Czech history. Prague: Práh, 1992.

DAVIS, Norman. No Simple Victory. London: Penguin Books, 2006.

DAVIS, Norman. Europe A History. London” Pimlico, 1996.

DEMETZ, Peter, “Libussa, or Versions of Origin,” in: Prague in Black and Gold: The history of a city, Penguin Books, 1998.

DUDÁK, Vladislav, Prague Pilgrim, or Prague from every side, Praha: Baset, 1995.

EVANS, R. J. The Third Reich at War. London: Penguin Books, 2008.

EWANS, R. J. W., Rudolf II and His World. A study in intellectual history, 1576-1612, Oxford 1973.

CHURCHILL, Winston S. Memoirs of the Second World War. London: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

JIRÁSEK, Alois. Stories and legends of Old Prague: from "Old Czech legends", London: Blackie & Son, 1931.

KREJČÍ, J. Czechoslovakia at the Crossroads of European History, London-New York 1990.

MACURA, Vladimír, “Problems and paradoxes of the national revival,” in: Bohemia in History, ed. Mikuláš Teich, Cambridge University Press 1998.

MOORE, R. I., The formation of a persecuting society: authority and deviance in Western Europe, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007.

NEDOMOVÁ, Alena and KOŠTELECKÝ, Tomáš, The Czech National Identity: Basic Results of the 1995 National Survey, Czech Sociological Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (SPRING 1997).

POLIŠENSKÝ, Josef V., History of Czechoslovakia in Outline, Praha: Bohemia International, 1991.

PUTÍK, Alexandr, ed. a DEMETZ, Peter. Path of life: Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel: 1525-1609, Prague: Academia, 2009.

THOMSON, David. Europe Since Napoleon. Longmans, 1966.

 

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Boušková Vašíčková, Ph.D. (27.09.2021)

The Final Test completion, 2 absences max.

"Hodnocení studentů je závazně založeno na škále písmen A-F, která vychází z Opatření děkanky číslo 17/2018 (https://www.fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-172018) a je následně upřesněno Opatřením děkanky číslo 20/2019 (https://fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-20/2019)."

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Boušková Vašíčková, Ph.D. (22.09.2021)

Week 1

Introduction: Czech Countries in the Context of European History

Beginning of the Human Settlement; Slavic peoples, Ancient Bohemian Legends; The Chronicle of the Czechs - Cosmas of Prague; European powers, the Great Moravia.

 

Week 2

Czech dukes & Bohemian Kings

Frankish Empire and Medieval France; Medieval Poland and Hungary; Přemyslid dynasty, National Saints – St. Wenceslas.

 

Week 3

Last Přemyslid Kings & Luxemburg Dynasty Charles IV.; bohemian reform movement; the schizm - role of popes in European society; Hussite wars; Hussite program; civil war, peace agreement - the Compacts.

 

Week 4

Bohemian Reform Movement European Devotio Moderna; the Schizm, role of popes in European society, Hussite Wars.

 

Week 5

Era of Jiří of Poděbrady Turkish problem in Europe.

Jagelonian kings and Middle Europe

 

Week 6

The House of Habsburgs in Europe Bohemian Kingdom since 1526, the Thirty Years' War in Bohemia; society in 17th - 18th century; the enlightment and civil reforms.

19th century - Era of National Rebirth (Czechs and Germans in Bohemia; modern political system in Middle Europe; political parties, economy, society.

 

Week 7

World War I. and Bohemia

Independence of Czechoslovakia (T.G. Masaryk; politics; Sudeten Germans; E. Beneš; 30's economic depresion).

Theme for discussion: World War I.; Russian Revolution (1917) and Rise of USSR

 

Week 8

The First Republic 1918 - 1938

The Second Republic September 1938 - March 1939

The end of Czechoslovakia Munich Agreement; The Second Republic; Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

 

Week 9

World War II.

1945-1948 - the bridge between East and West expulsion of Germans; Communists' coup d'état.

 

Week 10

People's democracy political trials in Soviet block; other communist countries in Europe.

 

Week 11

60's - Prague Spring A. Dubček; Soviet invasion; the real existing socialism.

 

Week 12

Normalisation Charter 77; the end of communist era; the velvet revolution.

Middle Europe in 90's