http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96213 Issue 1 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:12:59 GMT 2026-04-06T23:12:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97018 Bohdan Chudoba: the Tragic Story of a Talented Man Hanuš, Jiří The article deals with the historian, publicist, translator, editor and fiction author Bohdan Chudoba (1909–1982) who spent his life in a constant fight. He fought both with a traditional conception of the academic historiography which, in his point of view, did not take into account present and national or religious accents, and the mainstream ruling in the Československá strana lidová (Czechoslovak people’s party) and not least with the modernization of the Roman Catholic Church that came into being within the second Vatican council (1962–1965). The last struggle was fought by B. Chudoba as late as in an exile that he spent in the USA and first and foremost in Spain being it the country that became his second home. The author tries to bring forth basic principles of Chudoba’s standings by means of two publications: collection of essays O dějinách a pokroku (1939) and exile philosophical-religious pamphlets Vím, v koho jsem uvěřil (2009). His journey led in fact to a refusal of historic knowledge and to an original attitude as of elementary Christian texts — including the canonical ones. Chudoba’s life story is to a great extent a tragic one: only few shared his opinions and after his decease most of his work has been left in English and Spanish, i.e. for a wider public difficult to access. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97018 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96939 Troubles of Socialist Economic Integration: Czechoslovakia and Joint Projects within the CMEA in 1970s and 1980s Lomíček, Jan The paper summarizes the topic of Czechoslovak participation on international projects within the CMEA. International projects within the CMEA should be considered as specific areas where widely declared socialist economic integration was to certain extent successful, not only in the context of the times. These projects symbolized one of few fields in which particular economic integration of the CMEA countries was based on really multilateral level (not only in the way of bilateral cooperation). Cooperation in case of these projects was realised on multilateral base (considering not only investments, but also the exchange of labor forces from participating countries). From the point of view of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the most important projects in the given period is the participation on the construction of gas pipelines Soyuz (Orenburg), Progress (Jamburg) and integrated mining and metallurgy plant in Dolinskaya near Krivoy Rog. The CMEA was proud of these projects as they represented notable outcomes of its functioning. Such positive image was also widely publicized in media and the participants on the projects gained great experience. Besides publicity function, some projects were important because of their economic function, also after the disintegration of the CMEA. On the other hand, some were not successful. Czech participation on the construction of mining complex in Dolinskaya symbolizes the end to an attempt at socialist economic integration. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96939 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96728 Historical Consciousness of German Travellers to Bohemia (1750–1850) Power, Martina This article assesses the historical consciousness of German travellers who visited Bohemia in the period between 1750 and 1850. Through an analysis of the German travel literature about Bohemia, the goal is to identify such geographical sites that were associated with important historical events and to examine the interpretation of historical events. The focus on the period of one hundred years between 1750 and 1850 allows for the analyses of the transformation of historical memories and the study of those memories in the context of emerging national identities. The article shows that travellers and authors of the travel literature set the historical remembrances within the interpretative framework of a national historical narrative. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96728 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96552 Women in the Building Era of Czechoslovakia 1945–1948: “Two-Year Period Unfeasible without the Participation of Women!” Kožáková, Katarína After World War II, women represented a wide reservoir of available workforce with which the Government of the Czechoslovak Republic counted for the recovery of the country. Already the Kosice government program talked about working women, to whom it promised adequate work and proper pay compensation. It was a breathrough in the status of women because in the period of the Slovak Republic in 1939–1945, the idea of returning women to the family was promoted due to the authoritarian state policy. The government favoured a housewife and presented women leaving their jobs as a patriotic sacrifice. After World War II, the opposite became true and the inclusion of women into the work process and the broader social life was a major social phenomenon, which means a patriotic duty for women. Governments of the Czechoslovak Republic in the period 1945–1948 created working and social conditions for women that were supposed to contribute to improved labour productivity and thus meet the objectives resulting form the two-year economic plan. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96552 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z