history – 20th century(195)

Strategická obranná iniciativa

In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s administration introduced an (old) new topic into the global politics: the development of a missile defense...

„Práce šlechtí!“

Using the example of “labor services” as a worldwide method of handling unemployment among young people during economic crises, this book...

Sudetoněmecká dobrovolná pracovní služba v meziválečném Československu

Majstr a Małgorzata

This study addresses one of partial political and economic phenomena of the postwar period – labor migration in a socialist society. It f...

Polky v továrnách ČSSR

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

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

Martyr Christi

P. Adolf Kajpr SJ (1902–1959)

Automobilismus a česká společnost

Pronikám do Boha / So dringe ich in Gott

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

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