Vliv velké hospodářské krize na průmyslovou výrobu v Československu

The thesis deal the impact of the great economic crisis on the industrial production of Czechoslovakia. The main goal of the thesis is to analyze the deep decline of industrial production, which didn´t return to the pre-crisis level even by 1937. The thesis focuses more closely on the comparison of the impacts on light and heavy industry, where especially light industry, which is dependent on foreign trade, was affected more significantly and its economic recovery was more moderate than in heavy industry. Individual parts of the thesis are divided to the following topics. The introduction of the theoretical part is devoted to the issue of business cycles and the differencess between cyclical and structural fluctuations. The second chapter deals the great economic crisis, its creation and a comparison of different views on the cause of the crisis. This part also solve the crisis in the USA, where it manifested itself first and very noticeably. The third chapter discusses the development of the economy in times of crisis in selected European countries. The main of the theoretical part is presented in the fourth chapter, which first time analyzes the default economic conditions of Czechoslovakia at the time of its foundation and then describes the development of the Czechoslovak economy in the 20s of the 20th century and focuses in detail on the development and parameters of industry and foreign trade. The fifth chapter provides an overview of the overall development of the Czechoslovak economy during the crisis and put the context for the following chapters. The sixth chapter is the most important part of the paper. It analyzes the development in industrial production with an emphasis on differences in the development of light and heavy industry. It tries to record what influence quantitative and qualitative changes in foreign trade and state economic policy had on the development of industrial production. The seven chapter discusses the varios impact of the crisis on the Czechoslovak regions and also focus on the differences between the Czech lands, Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia. The last, eighth chapter give the development of the Czechoslovak industry to the context of the industrial development of other, especially European, countries. The initial goal of the work is to introduce the reader with the described issue in full. I see the author's greatest contribution in the interpretation of a wide spectrum of data and in the inclusion of a wide range of phenomena that had an impact on industrial production, especially the detailed processing of foreign trade, whose decline was one of the main causes of the decline in industrial production. The author's effort differentiate the natural development in industrial production that was started in the 1920s from the effects of the great economic crisis is also interesting.