Veľká a veľmi dôležitá časť výstavby, ktorá sa aktuálne nachádza v našom bezprostrednom okolí, pochádza z povojnového obdobia. V Československu bola táto produkcia tvorená v prostredí socializmu, a jeho centrálne riadeného hospodárstva. Podliehala mu tiež kompletná architektonická, projektová aj stavebná činnosť. Práve na pozadí takto (zhora) organ...
Cet article se concentre sur l’étude de deux revues, Pour vous de Tchécoslovaquie (1961–1992) et Soyez les bienvenus en Tchécoslovaquie (1965–1990), publiées par l’État tchécoslovaque à destination de touristes étranger.es afin de promouvoir le pays et ses produits. Par la profusion de photographies qui y sont publiées, ces deux revues s’inscrivent...
The thesis addresses the typification and construction of preschools in Czechoslovakia during the communist regime against political, social, and educational shifts following the 1948 coup d'état. In response to the urgent needs related to the housing crisis after World War II and the implementation of communist ideologies, novel approaches to educ...
This article provides novel estimates of long-term income inequality in Bulgaria and Czech Lands/Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century. Relying on newly-constructed datasets and the social tables approach, we measure inequality between salient social strata. We find that Czechoslovakia was significantly more unequal than Bulgaria before 1945. Ine...
This article introduces the forum on food shortages during the post-Habsburg transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia. Using examples from these regions, it first outlines the food crisis that developed during World War I and contributed to the internal disintegration of the Habsburg Empire. The article then turns to Czechoslovakia and Yugosla...
Published in Zeitschrift für Slawistik
This paper concerns works by the Polish contemporary author and journalist Mariusz Szczygieł (*1966). I analyze Szczygieł’s Czech reportages (Gottland [2006], Zrób sobie raj [2010] and to some extent Nie ma [2018]) from the perspective of memory studies, focusing particularly on the question of taboo in collective memory and the issue of false memo...
Published in Omega
The authors examine funeral reform in the second half of the 20th century in Central and Eastern Europe via the historical comparative analysis approach. Examining the case studies of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, the article argues that although the newly-developed civil (socialist) funeral ceremonies in the two countries followed a similar pattern,...
Published in Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
The innovative 20th century brought many problems, but it brought many solutions too. The problems architecture was trying to handle at the time were no longer solvable with traditional methods. The world learned about new architectural movements like post-war modernism, brutalism, high-tech architecture, and postmodernism. However, there were plac...
Published in Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
After the general societal and political change in November 1989 in Czechoslovakia, the subject "History of Psychology" became the stable component of curriculum of studying psychology at the Department of Psychology of Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The author of this paper has taught "History of Psychology" in Czech since 1998 f...
This thesis explores the experiences of women - mothers who regret having children. In mainstream society, it is assumed that mothers find their roles fulfilling and it makes them happy despite possible hardships. The topic of maternal regrets is not discussed enough, it is still a taboo. It is assumed that there is something wrong with a woman reg...
