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Bachelor thesis "The Case of Rudolf Barak in the Media of the Prague Spring" deals with the liberalization of the media in 1968 in Czechoslovakia and demonstrates this on a media affair of former Interior Minister Rudolf Barak. It describes reform trends and their consequences in the political and media spheres during the sixties, political and social changes, major adjustments in media legislation and changes in the media organization, rehabilitation processes with political prisoners. It summarizes the major events that shaped the career of Rudolf Barak, his work in the Communist Party and the Ministry of the Interior, his struggle for power, his arrest, investigation and imprisonment, and finally his release and efforts for rehabilitation. This thesis analyses media contents of three representative printed periodicals from this period and evaluates media coverage of the process with Rudolf Barak in 1962 and of his release from prison in 1968, it also compares the media image of Rudolf Barak in selected periodicals.

(Abstract) Bachelor thesis "Media image of Alexander Dubček from the beginning of August 1968 until the end of May 1969 in Rudé právo, Pochodeň, Lidová demokracie" characterized the period and most important events from 1968 with a concentration on Alexander Dubček and events around him. Alexandr Dubček, the main character of Prague Spring, tried to reform and changed the Communism. This process is often called "the Socialism with a human face". Dubček's policy was responsible for events of 21st August in 1968. The most of native Communist party were afraid of losing their posts and started to agree with Soviet plans. Dubček, the most powerful man in the state, had to leave his post on 17th April, 1969 because of pressure from Moscow and conservative political representatives. The first part of this work is concentrated on the main historical events of this period and Dubček's official biography. In the second part I am going to describe Dubček's media image at the beginning of August 1968 to the end of May 1969 in the historical newspapers Rudé právo, Pochodeň and Lidová demokracie. The aim of this work is to concentrate on the specific period and specific person in the historical newspapers and to describe a media image of Dubček in the individual historical newspapers from the individual...

Thesis "Federalization of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and its reflection in Czech and Slovak daily press" deals with the way selected Czech and Slovak newspapers reflected preparations and enactment of "Czechoslovak federation Act". Thesis is composed of four parts. The first describes history and evolution of relations between Czechs and Slovaks: foundation of their common state, creation of separate Slovak state, reconstruction of the republic after Second World War and later events. It explains why federalization was so important topic for Slovaks in 1968. The second part explores the situation of media in Czechoslovakia in 1968, when the censorship was banned during liberalization process of "Prague Spring". However, this process was cut off by the invasion of members of Warsaw Pact to the country. The third part is concerned with "Czechoslovak federation Act" itself, frames this important amendment of "Socialist" constitution from 1960 in Czech constitutional history. The fourth part reviews the way how Czech (Rudé právo, Svobodné slovo, Lidová demokracie) and Slovak newspapers (Pravda, Hlas ľudu, Smer) reflected federalization in selected time periods of 1968 and 1969.