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This master's thesis concerns the construction and the life in the Ďáblice housing estate in Prague during the seventies and the eighties of the twentiethcentury and presents its reflection in contemporary Czechoslovakian media, namely in Rudé právo and Lidová demokracie dailies, Mladý svět magazine and relevant programs of Czechoslovakian Television. The Ďáblice housing estate was built between 1968 and 1983. To this day, it is considered to be unique for its urban composition in the Czechoslovakian context. The aim of the thesis was to present the media image of this housing estate in the normalization era between the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Velvet Revolution in 1989. First, the theoretical part of the thesis describes the historical context and significant political and social events and phenomena. It also brings characterization of the contemporary media landscape with more detailed description of the researched media sources. It also focuses on Czechoslovakianhousingpolicy after the Second WorldWar with greater emphasis onmassive panel housing development. Separate chapter introduces the Ďáblice housing estate itself. The practical part of the thesis describes the methodology including research questions. This part subsequently presents the analysis of the articles and...

This thesis deals with the manifestations of the Communist propaganda in the period 1948- 1956 in the Czechoslovakian women's press, represented here by the Vlasta weekly magazine. It summarily presents the political and media situation in Czechoslovakia after World War Two and describes the two most significant organisations of the Czechoslovak women's movement at the time, together with their magazines, Československá žena and Rada žen, which preceded Vlasta. It presents the establishment of the Vlasta weekly magazine and introduces the two editors in chief, who managed the magazine in the period in question. Due to its extraordinary importance, it devotes a separate chapter to the most significant figure of the then Czechoslovak women's movement and in many aspects an exceptional personality Dr. Milada Horáková who initiated the establishment of Vlasta and published her own works in the magazine up to February 1948. After a theoretical introduction of Communist propaganda, the thesis presents its manifestations through specific examples from the content of Vlasta. The period in question is divided into three periods, the landmark year of 1948, when following the relatively independent beginning of Communist propaganda after the February Coup, this doctrine took complete control of the initially...

Thesis Alena Slezáková and her position in media. Biographical study deals with career of a journalist, who has witnessed during her activie years in media important events of Czech and Czechoslovakian history. Since the year 1964 she worked in Lidová demokracie, Lidové noviny, Mladá fronta DNES and magazines Naše rodina and Týden. In the year 1969 she was forbidden from entering parliament. She was allowed to return after Velvet Revolution, when she also started to work on education of young and beginning journalists. In the end of her career, right before she retired, she became a book reviewer. This biographical study uses method of oral history, which means that author of this thesis interviewed Alena Slezáková regularly. It also uses method of qualitative content analysis of her texts, that informed about events in politics and society in Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia. Thesis also mentions important historic affairs, so the life and work of Slezáková can me contextualized. Aim of this thesis was not only to describe life of Alena Slezáková but also to outline transformations in media she witnessed - censorship and its dissolution, new media law and transformation of party's press. Part of this thesis are also two hypotheses which were confirmed. During the research it was shown that events...

The beginnings of totalitarian legislation in The Czechoslovak Republic in the years 1948-1952 Abstract This work aims to document the most fundamental deformation rule of law in favor of the communist totalitarian rule in the early phase of its onset ie. from 1948 to 1952 and also point out the fundamental contradiction between state law, ie. legal norms declared a state of de facto, ie. actually enthroned.

Bacelor thesis analysis medial reflection of Václav Havel in czech press in the time of "November 1989". Analysis is focus on changes in presentation of disident and "persona non grata" on medial scene, that changed in very short time to public leader and then president od Czechoslovakia. Thesis first introduces czechoslovak press in specific time of social change, and then analysis, how this change influenced presentation of Václav Havel. For analysis vere chosen influential czech daily papers, that covered whole spectra of opinions on Václav Havel. Medial contents were primarily analysis qualitatively, separated on timelines, to recognition developing tendencies. Then contens of these media was compared in quantitative study, that has analyses differences in relationships to Václav Havel in dependence on events of "November 1989". Thesis acknowlidges same known facts about medial presentation on Václav Havel, but in other parts it openes a new themes and questions, that has not been so much explored to this times. For example ambivalent relationship of daily paper Mladá fronta.

This thesis is focused on medial presentation of the trial with the protectorate government. On the case of this process I try to show how this historical trial was depicted on the pages of the periodical press Rudé právo, Lidová demokracie and Svobodné noviny. On the background of this analysis of the historical press I intend to picture the character of the afterwar years which had been characterized by groundbreaking changes within the czech society and the state. From this reason I pay attention to the question of the impact of the war on the exil london government's plans for the reconstruction of the postwar Czechoslovakia. Regarding the connection with all the postwar changes I try to picture the background of the origin of the retribution, both from the czech and foreign point of view. In consideration of the fact, that the retribution itself was a kind of means of coping with the past and starting a new period of existence, I also try do depict the political background of the trial with the protectorate government. Particularly I focus on the attempts to influence this trial and discussions, that had been circulating regarding the guilt and punishment of the defendants. The interests of the political representation were related to the media, which kept providing lots of information about...

The aim of this thesis is to describe the media image of Chile during the years 1970 - 1973 in the Czechoslovakian media. In 1970, the first Marxist oriented president in the western hemisphere, doctor Salvador Allende, was elected by people in Chile. Along with his government, put together out of the members of the Unidad Popular coalition, he made the first steps towards the creation of socialism in Chile. These efforts claimed the attention of the media in the Eastern Bloc, including the Czechoslovakia. The bachelor's thesis examines the media image of Chile in three Czechoslovak daily newspaper, that is Rudé právo, Mladá fronta and Lidová demokracie. The chosen research method is qualitative content analysis. The examined time periods were following events: the victory of Salvador Allende in the presidential election, the nationalization of the Chilean copper industry and the military coup of General Augusto Pinochet. The thesis builds upon an extensive theoretical part describing the historical and international political background of the events as well. A lot of attention is also dedicated to Chilean- Czechoslovakian relationships, which were based mainly upon Chilean-Soviet relationships.

The bachelor thesis Hunger strike of the Nortern Irish prisoners in 1981 by the view of the Czechoslovak press deals with the qualitative content analysis of the informations about hunger strike of the Norther Irish prisoners that appeard on the pages of selected Czechsoslovak newspapers. The period under ecxamination is from 1 st March until 3rd October 1981. Hunger strike itself took place in prison in Northern Ireland that was called Long Kesh. Selected newspapers are Rudé právo, Mladá fronta and Lidová demokracie. Theoretical part of the work describes the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Methodological part presents research method, which is qualitative content analaysis and with it associated research questions and hypotheses. Each newspapers are introduced and analyzed separately and compared with each other at the end of the work. The main goal of the work is to find out, how selected newspapers informed about the events in Northern Ireland, how much space was given to these events and how much this newspapers presented their own opinion about the conflict.

The presented bachelor thesis deals with media view of events of November 1939 created by Rudé právo, Lidová demokracie and Mladá fronta in chosen years, starting 1945, then 1949 and then after every five years until 1968 and 1969. The theoretical part provides an insight into the historical background of these events based on the academic literature. The practical part contains the analysis of particular articles and it is divided into seven chapters according to examined year. Each chapter includes brief information about the status of media in society in a selected year, a description of the media image of these events produced by the newspapers mentioned above and its subsequent analysis at the end of each chapter. The aim of this thesis is finding how Czech newspapers presented the events of Novemeber 1939 depending on their orientation and the social and political context by using comparative historical analysis.

This bachelor's thesis deals with the development of line advertising in journals. It is divided into theoretical and practical parts while the development is described on the basis of textual and thematic analysis of line advertising in journals Lidová demokracie and Lidové noviny. In the thematic analysis the work focusses on the volume of advertisements and specifically whether and when it rises (or drops). The textual analysis tries to record language and orthography norms as they evolved. The work is also focused on vocabulary changing and advertisers' active vocabulary. The corpus of researched material comes from years 1968 and 1988 of Lidová demokracie, always first week of March, June, September and December and the same months of Lidové noviny from years 1998 and 2008. Both journals can be paralleled because of their relatively comparable edition, number of readers and position on the newspaper market. On the basis of practical comparation of the analysis a demonstration of the line advertisement is made. The theoretical part describes briefly history of advertisement including the censorship in the second half of the 20th century. Further it deals with legislatives measures and actual principles of advertisement in the Czech Republic. It is also accompanied by basic principles of...

The paper will concern the formation of the United Nations Organization in 1945 and its reflection in the period newspapers. Firstly it will provide facts about the preceding organizations of UNO, it will describe the proces of drafting the new organization and its establishing conference in San Francisko 25. 4. - 26. 6. 1945. It will discuss the position of the Czechoslovak Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Masaryk at the conference, because he acted as a very pro-Western politician before and during World War II, but at the conference he stood for the interestes of the Soviet Union (i.e. in the question of recognizing the Polish government). Then the paper will also outline the domestic political situation that was influencing Masaryk's performance at the conference. The first part includes also the preamble of the UN Charter. The second part of the paper will introduce the articles in the Czechoslovak press that were reporting about the UN creation. I chose the following newspapers: Lidová demokracie, Mladá fronta, Právo lidu, Rudé právo and Svobodné slovo, because those daily newspapers were written in Czech, they were published in the period of June-December 1945 and they were published by political parties that were represented in the National Front (only the journal Mladá fronta was published...

The bachelor's thesis focuses on how the Czechoslovakian press informed of preparations for Marshall Plan at the dawn of deciding whether or not to support this program. It compares the coverage of this topic by the Communist Party's Rudé Právo newspaper and the People's Party's Lidové Demokracie newspaper, the mainstream daily newspapers of the two parties in power, often having very different political views. The first two sections of the thesis elaborate on the topic from a historical point of view, tracking the post-war development in Czechoslovakia and throughout Europe, the growing rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union and events leading to Marshall Plan. The third section concentrates on the nature of the Czech media environment during the Third Republic and briefly depicts both examined periodicals. The fourth and fifth sections are devoted to the research and analysis of collected data.

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...

The main objective of the diploma thesis is The Media image of the World Cogress of Women in Pragie in 1981 in chosen contemporary press. Women from 133 countries went, in the period from 8 to 13 October 1981, to the Palace of Culture in Prague to discuss equality and peace, descended on the event hosted by the Women's International Democratic Federation. The World Cogress of Women was seen as one of the most important political events of the year 1981 by the Eastern bloc countries. Grasping the topic to handle an event about which no literature after 1989, which would address it, thes describe the media scene, analyze access to press coverage of the event and last but not least, to characterize the status and role of women in 1981, as presented by media. This thesis aids to bring this historical event from a historical perpective of selected dailies and magazine and bring in-depth study of the topic.

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.

The bachelor thesis "Potsdam conference and its media image in Czech period newspapers" focuses on the way how chosen newspapers, specifically Rudé právo (the official newspaper of Communist Party), Mladá fronta (newspaper of Czechoslovak Union of Youth), Lidová demokracie (official newspaper of Czechoslovak people's party), Svobodné noviny (newspaper of Association of cultural organizations) and Právo lidu (the official newspaper of Czechoslovak social democratic party) informed about the topic of Potsdam conference during the period from june till september 1945. The conference significantly affected post- war reconstruction of the world. The paper focuses mainly on the way how newspapers dealed with the limited information about the meeting and the discussed topics. The paper is also interested in circumstances of the Potsdam conference and its impact on Czechoslovakia.

Bachelor thesis "The media image of Prague underground in the contemporary press during the period 1974-1990" deals with presenting underground railway by daily press during the normalization and shortly after the velvet revolution in 1989. The author have chosen Lidová demokracie, Mladá fronta, Rudé právo a Večerní Praha as the sources. The thesis is focused on years 1974, 1978 and 1985 - during these years the underground line C, A and B were opened - and 1990, when the line A was prolonged. The thesis also describes the history of the underground in Czechoslovakia and interprets the contemporary and political context.

Diploma thesis How media helped to create life-style of Czechoslovakian people deals with life in socialistic Czechoslovakia in two chosen newspaper perspective. Diploma thesis examines how in Lidová demokracie (published all over the republic) and Pochodeň (published in region of east Bohemia) informed about life-style, what a reader could know from their articles. Life-style is a wide topic, that is why we have chosen just these areas: flat building, culture of building concerning flat lay-out, furniture, textiles and decorations, next leisure time activities focused mainly on recreation represented by mass union recreation, pioneer camp, "cottaging" and camping. Last area is fashion as an integral part of life-style. Fashion is aimed at woman's fashion. In socialism, man's fashion was not interesting topic. Those texts we have found are divided also into three groups - news, publicism and advertisements. To category of publicims we included also advices for household, recipes and this kind of texts. In advertisements, we used also consumer's goods you can use at home or during your holidays (kitchen machines, televisors, tents etc.). We were interested not only in exact topics that we could find in above spoken areas, but also in regional aspect and its demonstration in Pochodeň and also who exactly the...