history – 20th century(197)

Plzeň punková a metalová

The book describes the diverse environment of the punk and metal alternative music scene in Pilsen during the 1980s and the first half of...

Punková a metalová alternativní hudební scéna v Plzni (1983–1995)​

Anatomie komunismu: Skutečný příběh jedné rodiny

This book follows the story of three people in the turbulent 20th century: the life of my mother, my father and me, whose life was affect...

Příběh československé ústavy 1920 II

The constitution of 29 February 1920 is an essential constitutional document of the independent Czechoslovak state. Jan Kuklík follows th...

Ústava a její proměny v meziválečném období

Svatý stolec a Československo I.

The first volume of a new series presents an edition of summary diplomatic reports of the Czechoslovak embassy to the Holy See during the...

Edice dokumentů z let 1920–1922

Sto let jedné židovské rodiny na českém venkově

This trio of egodocuments captures the fates of three generations of a single family. In the first part, Adolf Ornstein revisits the lif...

Soukromá válka Huga Vavrečky

The name of Hugo Vavrečka (1880–1952), a journalist, diplomat, director of the Baťa company, minister of propaganda and grandfather of th...

Mikrohistorie z rozhraní soudobých dějin (1945–1952)

Ženy v politice

After World War II, Czechoslovak female politicians continued the First-Republic tradition of active political participation of their pre...

Role a postavení vrcholných političek v Československu 1948–1968

Hotel Alcron

Hotel Alcron became synonymous with and was a symbol of the Czech hotel industry. As a company, it is exceptional, because it survived al...

K dějinám symbolu českého a československého hotelnictví

Masarykova teorie demokracie

Tomáš G. Masaryk, in his actions and works, persistently and honestly tried to ensure that society was imbued with the principles of huma...

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

Sovětská armáda a česká společnost 1968–1991

This book addresses different aspects of the over twenty years of the presence of the Soviet army in Czechoslovakia between 1968–1991. It...

Beyond the Revolution in Russia: Narratives – Concepts – Spaces

The book sheds light on the preconditions and consequences extending far beyond the event that opened up totally new horizons in 1917. To...

100 Years since the Event