Paměť a paměti druhé světové války v českých zemích. Vzpomínkové práce vojáků druhého čs. zahraničního odboje

• Main Author: Mücke, Pavel
• Other Authors: Čechurová, Jana
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-279222

The author of this master thesis tries to capture severa! moments of life stories of Czechoslovak soldiers and their so called war memoires (e.g. private war diaries and written memoirs, novels, poetry, interviews) bom during and after the Second World War. In the first part of dissertation is conceming e.g. these key questions: Why did the soldiers give testimony? How they did it? In what kind of written form they made it? Why those days seemed so cruel to them? How these testimonies were used by media and historians and how did they play a role in the process of fromning collective memory in Czech Lands. Examining these sources, author tried to answer for these questions. Important goal of dissertation is to demonstrate, how memoirs was perceived throughout centuries, since the ancient ages to the present and what forms were continiously developed. In the second part, us ing transformed concept of "realms of memory" (P. Nora) and "memory frames" (M. Halbwachs), author tries to demonstrate how these sources yould be used in reserahc of memory and every day life of Czechoslovak soldiers in qualitative way. To get an inspiration, the attention was tumed to methodological literature from social and human sciences in wide range escecially from abroad because Czech historiography does not reflect this topic...