USESEA041 Reconstruction of 1950´s Political Trial: Academic Seminar

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Jan Kuklík, DrSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Jan Kuklík, DrSc.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Prerequisites
Outputs:
Students will demonstrate knowledge of the phenomena from several fields of social science with the emphasis on understanding their mutual correlation, namely the correlations between a general phenomenon and its concrete demonstration in reality. They will have acquired the knowledge of source materials and legal historical methodology.
Expert Skills:
Students are able to explain basic facts and the context of a selected topic.
Students are able to look up and organize relevant information, and to elaborate a given topic in the form of a paper, following defined methodological, formal and content requirements.
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 aim of the subject is to familiarize students with legal, historical and politological aspects of the political processes in the 1950s. The programme will first provide a general legal-historical analysis of political processes and their context, and then will deal with the main type of cases through the reconstruction of individual cases based on original archive resources. The main attention will be paid to the analysis of concrete cases with the active participation of students. On the completion of the course, students will be well informed about the main contexts of criminal law abuse in political repressions in the 1950s.
Syllabus
  • 1.-2. The introduction into the political situation after February 1948. The term "political proces". Historical roots. Retribution.
    3.-4. Basic legal amendment of the Czechoslovak criminal law applied in political processes.
    5.- 6. Typology of political processes.
    7.- 14. The analysis of concrete cases in relation to general typology.
Literature
    required literature
  • KUKLÍK, J. a kol. Dějiny československého práva 1945-1989. Praha: Auditorium, 2011. ISBN 978-80-87284-17-9. info
  • VOREL, J., ŠIMÁNKOVÁ, A., BABKA, L. (eds.). Československá justice v letech 1948-1953 v dokumentech. I. II. a III. díl. Úřad dokumentace a vyšetřování zločinů komunismu, 2004. ISBN 80-86621-03-0. info
    recommended literature
  • KAPLAN, K. Největší politický proces. Milada Horáková a spol. Brno: Doplněk, 1995. ISBN 80-85270-48-X. info
  • KAPLAN, K. Nekrvavá revoluce. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1993. ISBN 80-85270-20-X. info
  • KAPLAN, K. Zpráva o zavraždění generálního tajemníka. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1992. ISBN 80-204-0269-1. 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
Credit Requirements: Participation in seminars and a seminar paper.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2014, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019.
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