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Last update: Mgr. Alena Marková, Ph.D. (07.01.2023)
Schedule: Tuesday, 9:10 - 10:45 teacher's email: alena.markova@fhs.cuni.cz |
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Last update: Mgr. Alena Marková, Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
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Last update: Mgr. Alena Marková, Ph.D. (04.02.2024)
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Last update: Mgr. Alena Marková, Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
Recommended Reading: Bolton, Jonathan, Worlds of Dissent. Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2012. Bren, Paulina – Neuburger, Mary (eds.), Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Caldwell, Melissa L., Dacha idylls: living organically in Russia's countryside, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Chernyshova, Natalya, Soviet consumer culture in the Brezhnev era, New York: Routledge, 2013. Crowley, David –Reid, Susan, Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the East Bloc, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2010. Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Oxford University Press, USA, 1999. Fitzpatrick, Sheila (eds.), Sedition: everyday resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Froese, Paul, The plot to kill God: findings from the Soviet experiment in secularization, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Gorsuch, Anne – Koenker, Diane P., The Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Havel, Václav, “The power of the powerless”, in: Václav Havel, John Keane (eds.), The power of the powerless: citizens against the state in central - eastern Europe, London: Hutchinson, 1985. Havelková, Hana –Oates-Indruchová, Libora (eds.), The politics of gender culture under state socialism: an expropriated voice, London: Routledge, 2014. Katz, Katarina, Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union A Legacy of Discrimination, Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Publishers, 2001. Kelly, Catriona, Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero, Granta Books, 2005. Lovell, Stephen, Summerfolk: a history of the dacha, 1710-2000, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. Ledeneva, Alena, Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange, New York, 1998. Machovec, Martin (ed.), Views from the inside: Czech underground literature and culture (1948-1989): manifestoes - testimonies – documents, Praha: Ústav české literatury a literární vědy, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2006. Marsh, Christopher, Religion and the State in Russia and China, London and New York: Continuum, 2011. Millar, James R. (ed.), Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR. A Survey of Former Soviet Citizens, Cambridge, New York, New Roghelle, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambrige University Press, 1987. Roubal, Petr, Spartakiads: the politics of physical culture in communist Czechoslovakia, Prague: Karolinum Press, 2019. |
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Last update: Mgr. Alena Marková, Ph.D. (04.02.2024)
Structure: lectures and discussions Remote online lectures on ZOOM platform, online discussions. A link to the lecture will be sent via email. Schedule: Tuesday, 9:10 - 10:45 teacher's email: alena.markova@fhs.cuni.cz |
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Last update: Mgr. Alena Marková, Ph.D. (04.02.2024)
Course Requirements: Students are expected to discuss all current issues related to lectures topics. Students have to attend online classes regularly. Terms of passing the course: Examination (6 ECTS): 1. Final essay Final essay (2 700 – 2 800 words long) on a pre-agreed topic needs to contain exact references and to state all their sources, i.e. also a bibliography. Clear, precise, and comprehensive citation is absolutely essential. Student’s critical observations, experience and critical reflections are very welcomed. Deadline: July 1, 2024 OR: 2. Final presentation. Students can prepare and deliver a ppt. presentation (20-25 min) on a pre-agreed topic during semester instead of a final essay. The number of slots for presentation is limited!
Evaluation Method: Grades will be based on active participation in discussions (25%), attendance (15%), and a final essay (or a final presentation) (60%) |
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Last update: Mgr. Alena Marková, Ph.D. (13.02.2023)
Syllabus: 1. Introduction. 2. Methodology. What is a cultural history? 3. Socialist distribution system: a society of (in)equality? 4. Informal practices: shortages and a shadow network of mutual favors and connections (“blat”) 5. Socialist luxury, fashion and VIP shops (Tuzex and others) 6. Style Hunters: a bright subculture of the Khrushchev Thaw. “Bad bourgeois” taste vs. the “proper socialist” style. 7. Culture of socialist underground: protest or fashion? 8. Denunciation as a social and a personal strategy 9. Religious and church: from elimination to mocking 10. Mass gymnastics: Faster, Higher, Stronger 11. Ideology, changing women’s role and some gender stereotypes 12. Final discussion. Presentations. |
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Last update: PhDr. Stanislav Tumis, M.A., Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
Knowledge of English and access to the link for online courses. |