history – 20th century(191)

Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia

This book tells the story of life of Kamill Resler, attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in post-war Czechoslovakia: Karl ...

The Life of K. Resler, Defence Counsel ex officio of K. H. Frank

Exile in London

During World War II, London experienced not just the Blitz and the arrival of continental refugees, but also an influx of displaced forei...

The Experience of Czechoslovakia and the Other Occupied Nations, 1939–1945

Tři životy

This book presents the life of political prisoner František Falerski (1927–1969). In his childhood and youth, his personality was shaped...

František Falerski – skaut, politický vězeň a osobnost K 231

Ruská agrese proti Ukrajině

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has been arguably the gravest challenge to the European security since 1945. It not only constitutes ...

Las relaciones entre Europa Central y América Latina

This book addresses the relations between Central Europe and Latin America. The scholars primarily focus on the 20th century when contact...

Contextos históricos

Běloruská emigrace v meziválečném Československu

This book addresses the complicated past of the current Belarussian minority in Czech territory. It examines the activities of Belarussia...

Studie a dokumenty. Sociopolitický aspekt

Moderní dějiny politické II.

Studijní texty pro zahraniční studenty

Fenomén Dijon

Jiří Voskovec, Václav Černý, Čestmír Císař, Zdeněk Troška, four generally well-known names, are connected through the French graduation e...

Století českých maturit ve Francii

Německá vysoká škola technická v Praze (1938–1945)

The history of the German Technical University in Prague in 1938–1945 is much like a crossroads, a point in which the history of educatio...

Struktura, správa, lidé

Poznámky k revoluční akci v Chicagu (1914–1918)

Alois Richard Nykl (1885–1958), an American of Czech origin, is primarily known as a linguist, polyglot and Orientalist. Having traveled ...

O chalupách a lidech

A majority of Czech population is familiar, either through direct experience or indirectly, with the phenomenon of spending time at weeke...

Chalupářství v českých zemích v období tzv. normalizace a transformace

Kolektivizace venkova v horním Polabí

Following the communist putsch in February 1948, Czechoslovak society was undergoing a very difficult stage, which was associated with ex...

Od fenoménů k aktérům a jejich motivacím