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Za hranice služebně

This book covers the hitherto neglected question of foreign business trips in the period of people’s democratic and later socialist Czech...

Pracovní cesty z Československa do zahraničí v letech 1945 až 1989

Z kapitalismu do socialismu a zpět

This book from the pen of a leading Czech social scientist provides a comparison between the socialist and capitalist transformations whi...

Z dějin české každodennosti

The "long" 19th century, a period from the end of the 18th century through the outset of World War I, was more than a century of the birt...

Writing Underground

In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machove...

Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia

Wortbildung im deutsch-tschechischen Wörterbuch

The book results from the practical lexicological work on the Comprehensive German-Czech Academic Dictionary, which arose at the Institut...

Why So Easily . . . Some Family Reasons for the Velvet Revolution

When communism was ushered into Czechoslovakia, it was supposed to last forever – yet over eleven days in November 1989, this supposedly ...

A Sociological Essay

Why I Write?

This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature’s greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Maréchal put it, “the moment ...

And Other Early Prose Pieces

Wenceslas IV

In dramatic circumstances on the hot summer day of 16 August 1419, Bohemian king Wenceslas IV died at Nový hrádek near Kunratice, away fr...

King of the Romans and of Bohemia and the Origins of the Hussite Revolution

We Were a Handful (paperback)

The acclaimed novel We Were a Handful is the humorous story of five small-town boys. In 1943 during one of the lowest points of his life ...

We Were a Handful

A famous Czech humoristic novel depicting adventures of five boys from a small Czech town in the form of a child's diary written by Petr ...

Vztahy Rakouska-Uherska a Spojených států amerických v období první světové války

This publication provides an analysis of Austro-Hungarian-American relations during World War I. Up until the publication of this book, t...

Vztahy Československa a Maďarska v letech 1918–1939

Czechoslovak-Hungarian Relations Between 1918–1939 reappraises the perception of the main political, cultural and social tendencies in in...