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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Michal Cáp (06.09.2021)
Course is designed as a sequence of weekly attended lectures (realization depends on covid-19 situation) expanded with reading of texts, supplemented by field excursions. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Michal Cáp (06.09.2021)
Active participation (max. 3 absences) . In case of more than 3 absences, additional requirements will be decided individually. The examination will consist of an essay (750-1250 words) and consequent discussion about its topic. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Michal Cáp (16.12.2021)
Recommended Literature: BYSTRICKÝ, Valerián. The military intervention of the central government in Slovakia, 9-11 March 1939. Bystrický, Valerián. In: Historický časopis Historického ústavu Slovenskej akadémie vied. Historický ústav SAV 59, (2011) COLE, Laurence, Rudolf KUCERA, Hannes LEIDINGER, Ina MARKOVA, Václav SMIDRKAL, Julia WALLECZEK-FRITZ, Verena MORITZ a Radka ŠUSTROVÁ. World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. CORNWALL, Mark and R.J.W. EVANS. Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe 1918-1948, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. CORNWALL, Mark and John Paul NEWMAN. Sacrifice and Rebirth: Legacy of Last Habsburg War, Oxford: Berghahn, 2018. CORNWALL, Mark. The Devil’s Wall: TheNationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha. Harvard University Press 2012. DEÁK, István: Beyond Nationalism. A social and political history of Habsburg Officer Corps 1848-1918, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. FIC, Victor Miroslav. The Bolsheviks and the Czechoslovak Legion, The Origin of their Armed Conflict March-May 1918, New Delhi : Abhinav Publications, 1978 KEN, Oleg. The deadlock in Soviet-Czechoslovak military relations and Beneš's perception of the Red Army purge of 1937. In: Mnichovská dohoda : cesta k destrukci demokracie v Evropě = Munich agreement : the way to destruction of democracy in Europe / Karolinum, 2004 KRAPFL, James. Sites of memory, sites of rejoicing. The Great War in Czech and Slovak Cultural History. Remembrance and Solidarity 2 (March 2014): 109-46. KUČERA, Rudolf. Exploiting Victory, Sinking into Defeat: Uniformed Violence in the Creation of the New Order in Czechoslovakia and Austria, 1918–1922. The Journal of Modern History [online]. 2016 HANULA, Matej. Peasant Cavalry in Slovakia: the Green Army of the Agrarian Party or its Prestigious Club?. In: Overcoming the old borders : beyond the paradigm of Slovak national history . Slovak Academy of Sciences in Prodama, 2013 HUDEK, Adam, KOPEČEK, Michal a Jan MERVART. Czechoslovakism. Palgrave 2021. HUTEČKA, Jiří. Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918. Oxford : Berghahn 2020 HUTEČKA, Jiří. “Completely Forgotten and Totally Ignored”: Czechoslovak Veterans of the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Transitions of 1918-1919. Nationalities papers, 2021-07, Vol.49 (4), p.629-645 MAJEWSKI, Piotr M. Nierozegrana kampania: Możliwości obrony Czechosłowacji jesienią 1938 roku, Warszawa 2004 MAJEWSKI, Piotr M. Niemcy sudeccy: historia pewnego nacjonalizmu, Warszawa 2008. MAJEWSKI, Piotr M. Kiedy wybuchnie wojna? 1938. Studium kryzysu. Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2019. MANÁK, Marián. Insights of the French Military Mission Representatives to Czechoslovakia into the Offensive Plans of the Republic and the Functioning of the Czechoslovak Army in 1919-1925. Historia Slavorum Occidentis : czasopismo historyczne = časopis historický. Marès Antoine. Edvard Benes, de la gloire á ľabime, Un drame entre Hitler et Stalin. 2015.
MARŠÁLEK, Zdenko. Mobile Formations in the Annual Manoeuvres of the Czechoslovak Army in 1937. Zdenko Maršálek. Historie a vojenství 51, Special Issue (2002). MARŠÁLEK, Zdenko a Martin KOLLER. Czechoslovak Military between the Two World Wars. In: From the Hussite wars to NATO membership : the Czech contribution to peace and war in Europ. : Evropský literární klub, 2002 MCNAMARA, Kevin J. Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe. New York : PublicAffairs, 2016. MILLER, Paul and Claire MORELON. Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918. Oxford: Berghahn, 2018. MORAVEC, Emanuel. The Military Importance of Czechoslovakia in Europe. Prague: Orbis, 1938. PROCHÁZKOVÁ, Jarmila. Leoš Janáček and Military Music. In: Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity : řada hudebněvědná (H) Masarykova univerzita v Brně 47, č. 33, (1998,) ORZOFF, Andrea. Battle for the Castle: The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914-1948. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. SOUBIGOU, Alain. Tomas Masaryk. Fayard 2002 (French edition) STEGMANN, Natali. Kriegsdeutungen - Staatsgrundungen - Sozialpolitik: Der Helden- Und Opferdiskurs in Der Tschechoslowakei 1918-1948. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2010. STEGMANN, Natali. Die Weltkriege als symbolische Bezugspunkte. Polen, die Tschechoslowakei und Deutschland nach dem Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg. Praha: Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, 2009. UNTERBERGER, Betty Miller. The United States, Revolutionary Russia, and the Rise of Czechoslovakia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. WINGFIELD, Nancy M. Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press 2007 WINGFIELD, Nancy M. “The Battle of Zborov and the Politics of Commemoration in Czechoslovakia.” East European Politics and Societies 17 (November 2003). ZEMAN, Zbyněk, with Antonín KLIMEK. The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884–1948: Czechoslovakia in War and Peace. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. ZIMMER, Oliver. Nationalism in Europe, 1890-1940. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ZÜCKERT, Martin. Memory of War and National State Integration: Czech and German Veterans in Czechoslovakia after 1918. Central Europe. 4, č. 2, (2006). ZÜCKERT, Martin. Zwischen Nationsidee und staatlicher Realität. Die tschechoslowakische Armee und ihre Nationalitätenpolitik 1918-1938. München : R. Oldenbourg, 2006.
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Michal Cáp (27.10.2021)
1. Introductory lesson (5.10.2021) Basic information about the course, attestation requirements, literature, introduction to the concepts of warfare and society, and social and cultural history of war. 2. Great War and Birth of “Nation” (12.10.2021) The disintegration of Austria-Hungary, the creation of Czechoslovakia during the First World War, takeoff of the experience of both the last Habsburg War and Czechoslovak Legions. 3. Building of State and Greater War (19.10.2021) Waging the wars after the War (Duchy of Teschen and Slovakia), coping with national, class, and societal violence during the early years of the Republic. 4. “Austrians” contra Legionnaires: A Social History of Officer Corps ((26.10.2021) Creation of new professional officers from opposing sides of the Great War, its place in Czechoslovak state and society, construction of military tradition, honour, and myth. 5. Excursion (2.11.2021) Visit of Museum of Czechoslovak Legions and lecture of current memory culture of First World War and its legacy. 6. Cultures of Defeat and Cultures of Victory in Masaryk´s State (9.11.2021) Divided memories and commemorative acts after the Great War, in favor and against the State, seeds of the future conflicts. 7. Between State Idea and National and Political Realities (16.11.2021) Military during the “quiet” years, its place in society, minorities question and its tension with the idea of citizen-soldier. 8. Veterans, Paramilitarism and Politics (23.11.2021) Veterans and paramilitary forces in the interwar political spectrum as both threats and support of the Republic. 9. Rise of External Threats and Internal Turmoil (30.11.2021) Military Policy towards the aggressive neighbours and internal dissent, modernization of the Army, construction of Concrete Border. 10. Czechoslovakia and internationalist volunteers (7.12.2021) Lessons not learned, Spanish civil war as a preview of WW2, Czechoslovak state and society reaction to its own international fighters. 11. Munich and Finale (14.12.2021) Threat, mobilization, defeat, and its fallout on society, fall of the First, and its reorganization into the Second Czechoslovak Republic in a military context. 12. Exile Armies, historical memory, and “should we have defended ourselves?” (21.12.2021) Memory of interwar Czechoslovak army, its immediate legacy in the foreign armed resistance. 13. Final Lesson (4.1.2022) Summary of the course, possibilities of transnational comparison, discussion and new perspectives and themes of research. |