The study introduces soldiers of basic compulsory military service and doing their civic duty from the point of view of ethnology. The first part contains the historical information about military duties. In second part the authoress is trying to define social group of the basic compulsory military service soldiers. In another part of the study she is focusing on analysis of the special phnenomenon. The last part indicates value attitudes of respondents towards the basic compulsory military service. Social group of soldiers of the basic compulsory military service represents a temporary way of grouping the uniformed people, who are doing their civic duty. They live in mutual relationships relatively separated from social life. They are subordinated to a strict discipline, their own rules and initiations. The soldiers of military service have some status within formal and informal relations. Differences in status are demonstrated in share of authority and advantages in relations to others. To realize expected behaviour on the certain position means to perform social role in the social system. The sphere of rights and duties was manifested by clothes too. There is a strong identity in the social group of soldiers of military service. The soldiers of military service could be split up into four groups. Coming into the group and transition from one group to another one is a ceremonial process. In the 19. and first half of 20. century passing through military service meant achievement of adulthood and ability of get married. Informers declared that passing through military service in the 21. century doesn't mean to be adult. According to the respondents there's no sense in passing military service. They agreed with foundation of professional army.
On the background of the nationwide situation in the newly originated Czechoslovakia, the author of the study introduces the specific situation in the town of Košice, which was experiencing an unprecedented growth and turned into the second most populated town in Slovakia, becoming the regional centre of economy, trade, education and culture. Firstly, the housing problems of the former administrative employees, financial and post office employees as well as railway workers had to be solved. Since the state, which had several military crews around the country, suffering from acute housing crisis, was not able to solve this acute problem, the Ministry of National Defence invited the municipalities to help building flats for the families of soldiers as well. The author states that the Košice Town Archive, in the Magistrate file, contains period documentation on the reconstruction of military barracks to flats in the former military camp in Barca, in the south of Košice. By 1927, soldiers obtained 300 flats altogether, through gradual adaptation. The study also deals with the construction of state-owned flats for the military salaried employees, the building and housing cooperative of officers and sergeants, the residential house for the building cooperative of the state employees, the residential house built from the revenues of the ticket loan for the generally beneficial building cooperative of the state and railway employees in Košice. Other topics include the Masaryk’s colony of financial officers in Košice, the Social and Health Care House of the CS Red Cross in Košice, the Northern Folk School and Nursery House. This study also deals with the analysis of architectural projects of individual buildings in question, mentioning their authors as well as an extensive image appendix.
In the study, the author sums up the activity of the imperial and royal camp and reserve brothels, established in 1915 by the military authorities of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, operating during the World War 1. The organisational rules of the camp and reserve brothels originating within divisions with the aim to prevent the spread of venereal diseases in the army and to protect the soldiers’ health (in 1915, 12% of the troops were infected) are introduced. The author zooms in on the regulations regarding the brothel activity, obligations of the staff and prostitutes as well as the effort of the authorities to build a whole network of brothels. Readers will learn about the headquarters regulations, issued to prevent the spread of venereal diseases among soldiers (raising awareness, medical check-ups several times a week, handing out free protection, etc.), uncovering similar civilian and military health regulations issued for the rear areas as well. The author informs about the operation of brothels established in the territories occupied by the Austro-Hungarian army (according to the Serbian example) and the hygienic and other regulations for the prostitutes working there. The author briefly informs the readers about the works of significant contemporary expert physicians and their work in the field of edification in order to suppress the spread of venereal diseases.
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