"In our land the end of the war is going to be written by blood." Collective Violence of the Year 1945 in the Czech Lands as Politics, Culture and Social Practice
Abstract
Traditional explanation of violent interactions as a consequence of disposal characteristics of particular agents is connected with the orientation of historiography on singular phenomena very closely. To the contrary there are a lot of valuable inspirations on the field of contemporary social sciences that are modifying these conceptions and that are offering a wide range of new interpretations.
Repertoires of politics, setting of social system and social processes in concrete situations define a research field applicable for historization of social phenomena of collective violence. In my study I have applied both the concepts of historicizing political science (Charles Tilly), and more general theories of social psychology (Philip Zimbardo) and sociology of violence (Randall Collins) to the particular developments in the Czech lands between April and August 1945.