history – 20th century(202)

Architects of Long Change

Architects of Long Change offers a novel perspective on the late communist dictatorship, the democratic revolution of 1989, and the early...

The Expert Roots of Post-Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1980–1995)

Finis koncertu velmocí

Evropa a Rakousko-uherská monarchie na konci dlouhého 19. století

Za sklem

Vila Tugendhat a její rodina

Minuty mezi životem a smrtí

Proměny záchranné služby (1952–2003)

The Restoration of Order

In an engaging style, not lacking in irony and detachment, Milan Šimečka describes the process of restoring order and its result—so-calle...

The Normalization of Czechoslovakia 1969–1976

Stranou zájmu, pod státním dohledem

Správa a proměny univerzitního statku v Malešicích

Podnikatel versus kapitál – kapitál versus podnikatel

Dvě tváře jednoho vztahu ve střední Evropě 19. a 20. století

Okno příležitosti

Even with borders closed, the environment brings people together. As tensions between East and West began to ease in the late 1980s, a wi...

Životní prostředí a přeshraniční vztahy na březích Dyje 1984–1995

Historicus inter saecula movens

A book of contributions celebrating Professor Jiří Pešek’s milestone birthday shows his wide range of research interests and, for the fir...

Kniha k životnímu jubileu prof. Jiřího Peška

Od trestu k terapii

How did experts living in post-war Europe understand violence? The book explores the approaches of psychiatrists and psychologists to vio...

Forenzní psychiatrie v poválečné obnově Evropy

Living Torches in the Soviet Bloc

Living Torches in the Soviet Bloc presents the lives of those who chose self-immolation as a radical form of protest against the politica...

Politically motivated cases of self-immolation in 1966–1989

Člověk na železnici 1

For two centuries, the railway has been a place where the stories of all kinds of passengers intersect – including those of politicians, ...

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