history – 20th century(194)

University – Historiography – Society – Politics

From the 1960s Prof. Dr. Jan Havránek (1928–2003) belonged among the internationally renowned personalities of Czech history focusing on ...

Selected Studies of Jan Havránek

Turistická odysea

The collective monograph, The Tourist Odyssey, represents a fundamental shift in the research of various forms of tourism in Czechoslovak...

Krajinou soudobých dějin cestování a cestovního ruchu v Československu v letech 1945 až 1989

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

Trpké vzpomínky na 17. listopad 1939

This collection, published on the occasion of the International Students' Day – Day of the Fight for Freedom and Democracy, supplemented ...

The Velvet Revolution 30 Years After

Thirty years after the Velvet Revolution brought down the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, this book uses interviews, photographs, and...

The Stojka family

The book traces the history of a Romani family from the territory of today’s Slovakia across the 19th and 20th centuries. Working with a ...

Spatial mobility and territorial anchoredness of Lovara Vlax Roms in the former Czechoslovakia

The Roma as Agents of the “G*psy Question”

The story of Romani people in communist Czechoslovakia has long been framed by a discriminatory policy of assimilation, and thus by fatal...

Belonging, Mobility and Resettlement Policy in Socialist Czechoslovakia

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

Teologie ve stínu

This collection of essays outlines selected historical facts about the Catholic theological reflection in the Czech Lands in the second h...

Prolegomena k dějinám české katolické teologie druhé poloviny 20. století

Temný kontinent

Mark Mazower’s Europe is not a continent of old countries and nations, but in many respects, it is very new and in the course of the 20th...

Evropa ve 20. století

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

T. G. Masaryk a jeho c. k. protivníci

Masaryk’s foreign action which began in Switzerland is not merely evidence of the great diplomatic and organizational work and skills of ...

Československá zahraniční akce ženevského období v zápase s rakousko-uherskou diplomacií, zpravodajskými službami a propagandou (1915–1916)