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Spartakiads

Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark ...

The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia

Společnost a vědění

This book by a renowned Cambridge historian, a leading representative of the "new history" wave, addresses the changes in the status of k...

Od Gutenberga k Diderotovi

Spolkový život českých novinářů v letech 1945-1948

This book describes Czech journalists’ life in professional associations during the relatively democratic period of the "Third Republic."...

Spoutaný parlament

Role a fungování zákonodárného sboru Československa v době diktatury KSČ

Staroměstská exekuce

Josef Petráň opens his book Old Town Execution with the depiction of the gory drama that took place in the Old Town Square on June 21, 16...

Statuta et Acta rectorum Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis

In medieval universities the written constitution had a tatutory character and represented a key instrument of internal organisation. As ...

1360–1614

Sto let jedné židovské rodiny na českém venkově

This trio of egodocuments captures the fates of three generations of a single family. In the first part, Adolf Ornstein revisits the lif...

Sto studentských revolucí

This book presents the unique testimony of hundreds of student participants in the November 1989 Revolution, which it uses to depict life...

Studenti v období pádu komunismu – životopisná vyprávění

Stoletá válka

Boris Bove presents the Hundred Years’ War as a mental construct, which strives to conceptually grasp the repeated conflicts between the ...

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...

Střední Evropa ve zbrani 1815–1914

This book on the development of industrial arms production in the Habsburg Monarchy and its expansion in Prussia and imperial Germany fro...

Sto let rozvoje moderního zbrojního průmyslu v císařském Rakousku, v českých zemích a v Prusku-Německu

Studentské hnutí odporu

The personality of Josef Šárka (1918–2008) is connected with significant milestones in the fight against totalitarian regimes in Czechosl...