history – 20th century(198)

Vendulka

Famed Czech Avant-garde photographer Jan Lukas snapped an offhand portrait of twelve-year-old Vendulka Vogl in March 1943. A friend of th...

Flight to Freedom

Fašismus

Although dozens of publications on Nazism and fascism are published annually, a book covering the theory of fascism from a diachronic per...

Úvod do komparativních studií fašismu

Jak vzpomínáme na normalizaci

Historical memory is one of the more frequently used terms today. It is of course used by the media and politicians. Should schools be mo...

Obrazy normalizační minulosti ve filmu

Pronikám do Boha / So dringe ich in Gott

Dopisy z nacistického a komunistického žaláře / Briefe aus der NS-Haft und aus dem kommunistischen Gefängnis

Martyr Christi

P. Adolf Kajpr SJ (1902–1959)

Automobilismus a česká společnost

The Rise and Fall of the International Organization of Journalists Based in Prague 1946–2016

This is a unique history of what in the 1980s was the world’s largest association in the media field. However, the IOJ was embroiled in t...

Useful Recollections, Part III

Smrt Luigiho Trastulliho a jiné příběhy

This collection of essays by Alessandro Portelli finally makes available to Czech readers his innovative approach to oral history, which ...

Forma a význam v orální historii

Mission: Apostolic Nuncio in Prague

In this book, the author gets to the heart of Czechoslovak-Vatican relations, the personalities of the apostolic nuncios, and their furth...

Czechoslovakian-Vatican Diplomatic Relations between 1920 and 1950

Teachers on the Waves of Transformation

A transforming society undergoes changes on many levels. The main two of these are changes in the structures and culture of society. But ...

School Culture Before and After 1989

Příběh československé ústavy 1920 I

The Constitutional Charter adopted on February 29, 1920, is the basic constitutional document of the independent Czechoslovak state. Jan ...

Příprava a přijetí ústavní listiny

Vzestup a pád ČSLA?

A large number of stereotypes are associated with the military profession and the functioning of the military during the Communist regime...

Vojenská profese v kolektivní paměti důstojnického sboru (1960–1970)