USESEN025 Comparative Analysis of Political Persecusions in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century I

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2013
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Mečislav Borák, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Mečislav Borák, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Mečislav Borák, CSc.
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. The first part of the teaching presents the forms and methods of research of political repressions, rules of register of victims of persecution and methods of comparative analysis of mechanicals of political repressions of non-democratic regimes. The attention is paid to depiction of historical connections of origin, activities and roles of internment and prison camps and structures of their victims, to comparison of repressive character of court as well as out-of-court persecutions including politically motivated executions, as well as to process of rehabilitation of victims of persecution in individual types of regimes, especially in central and eastern Europe, at the same time the interpretation will be based on published as well as results of own long-term researches not yet published. The students will be then presented possibilities of comparative analysis and typology of political persecutions in non-democratic regimes of central and eastern Europe in the 20th century on concrete materials.
Syllabus
  • 1. Forms and methods of research of mechanicals of political repressions and their victims, literature, research projects
    2. Basic concepts, chronology and typology of political repressions in central and eastern Europe in the 20th century
    3. Characteristics of criminal law and justice in totalitarian regimes
    4. Court and out-of-court forms of persecution
    5. Victims of Nazi justice and "great terror" in USSR
    6. War crimes of European totalitarian regimes
    7. Comparison of camp systems for prisoners of war and interned
    8. Position and fates of prisoners of war of the World War II in Europe
    9. Comparison of Nazi and communist crimes in the 20th century
    10. Process of rehabilitation of victims of political repressions and its results
    11. Compensations for victims of political repressions
    12. History and memory - evidence, commemoration and legacy of victims of repressions
Literature
    required literature
  • ROGUT, D.-ADAMCZYK, A.(eds.). Represje sowieckie wobec narodów Europy 19444-1956. info
  • JAKOVLEV, A. Rusko plné křížů. Od vpádu do pádu bolševismu. Brno: Doplněk, 2008. info
  • SELIGMANN, M.- DAVISON, J.- MCDONALD, J. Ve stínu hákového kříže. Život v Německu za nacismu 1933-1945. Praha, 2008. info
  • STANĚK, T. Českoslovenští občané v systému GUPVI NKVD-MVD v SSSR v letech 1945-1960 a němečtí váleční zajatci v Československu. In Perzekuce československých občanů v Sovětském svazu (1918-1956). Část II - Váleční zajatci a internovaní. Opava: Slezská univerzita a Slezské zemské muzeu, 2007. info
  • BORÁK, M. Popravy jako součást politických represí v SSSR a dosud zjištěné oběti z řad Čechů a československých občanů. In Perzekuce československých občanů v Sovětském svazu (1918-1956). Část I - Vězni a popravení. Opava: Slezská univerzita a Slezské zemské muzeu, 2007. info
  • BORÁK, M. Výzkum perzekuce československých občanů v Sovětském svazu (1918-1945). Opava, Slezské zemské muzeum, 2007. info
  • Poljan, P. Žertvy dvuch diktatur. Ostarbajtery i vojennoplennyje v Treťhem Rejche i ich repatriacija. Moskva, 1996. info
  • BULLOCK, A. Hitler a Stalin. Paralelní životopisy. Plzeň: Mustang, 1995. 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 testing the theoretical and practical knowledge of the issue, the second in a form of comparative essay (comparison of two phenomena).
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2012, Winter 2014.
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