Anotace
This is one of the courses of the UPCES programme (the Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies); the comprehensive information is available at https://bakalar.fhs.cuni.cz/SHV-211.html.
Central Europe has been through very demanding times in the 20th century and this course will examine role of its leaders in implementing (or failures to implement) crucial and often life-preserving policies.
We will look at lives and deeds of several important political figures from Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. In doing so we will confront their autobiographical records with facts, learn quite a bit about the history of the region and understand important theories and distinctions in a general theory of leadership.