USESEN026 Comparative Analysis of Political Persecusions in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century II

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course characterizes the role of political persecutions and repressions in non-democratic forms of government, their typology and periodization. Comparative analysis of forms and mechanicals of political justice, criminal law, forced work as well as prison and camp formations in totalitarian but also in authoritative and post-totalitarian regimes of central and eastern Europe in the 20th century is based on published as well as results of own long-term researches not yet published. The students will be then presented possibilities and boundaries of comparative analysis in synchronic and diachronic comparison and typology creation of central and eastern Europe in the 20th century on concrete materials.
Syllabus
  • 1. Terror and repression in non-democratic regimes
    2. Criminal law, prison system and political justice
    3. Forced work in modern period
    4. Century of camps - origin, development and typology of camp systems
    5. Soviet criminal law and prison system as an instrument of political repressions
    6. History of GULAG (1918-1960)
    7. Nazi extermination centres, concentration camps and prisons (1933-1945)
    8. Communist and Nazi camps (comparative)
    9. Development of criminal law in Poland and Czechoslovakia (1945-1956)
    10. Camps and prisons in central Europe after 1945
    11. Political repressions and prison system in south-east Europe after 1945
    12. Prison system in post-totalitarian regimes in central and eastern Europe in the 70´s and the 80´s
Literature
    required literature
  • JANÁK, D. Českoslovenští občané a Češi v sovětských věznicích a táborech (1918 - 1956). In Perzekuce československých občanů v Sovětském svazu (1918 - 1956). Část I. Opava: Slezské zemské muzeum a Slezská univerzit, 2007. info
  • APPLEBAUMOVÁ, A.: GULAG. Dějiny. Praha, Plzeň: Pavel Dobrovský - BETA a Jiří Ševč, 2004. info
  • KOTEK, J., RIGULO,P. Vek lagerej. Lišenije svobody, koncentracija, uničtoženije. Sto let zlodějanij. Moskva: Tekst, 2003. info
  • JANÁK, D. Kapitoly o československém vězeňství 1945 - 1955. Opava: Slezské zemské muzeum, 2002. info
  • COURTOIS, S. et al. Černá kniha komunismu. Zločiny, teror, represe. I. Praha, Litomyšl: Paseka, 1999. info
    recommended literature
  • MOZOCHIN, O. B. Pravo na represii. Vněsuděbnyje polnomočija organov gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti (1918 - 1953). Moskva, 2006. info
  • BYSTROV, V. Průvodce říší zla. Názvoslovný a místopisný slovník více než 2100 koncentračních, nápravněpracovních, zvláštních, výrobních, zajateckých, internačních a prověřovacích filtračních táborů a zvláštních osad, zřízených od dvacátých do šedesátých let dvacátého století v Sovětském svazu, a táborů, které Sovětský svaz provozoval v letech 1939 - 1950 v jiných zemích. Praha, 2006. info
  • LITERA, B., REIMAN, M., VORÁČEK, E., WANNER, J. Formování stalinského mocenského systému. K problému tzv. sebedestrukce bolševiků 1928 - 1939. Praha, 2003. info
  • KAMIŃSKI, A. J. Koszmar niewolnictwa. Obozy koncentracyjne od 1896 do dziś. Analiza. Warszawa, 1990. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Written exam - the first part in a form of a test with closed questions, the second in a form of comparative essay (comparison of two phenomena)
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2015.
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