The overall aim of this journal is to publish articles, essays and other contributions written by leading scholars in the field of contemporary history from both the Czech Republic and abroad. Particular focus is placed on Czechoslovak and Czech topics in a broader international or transnational setting. Our primary intention is to publish texts that have been previously published in Czech in the journal Soudobé dějiny (Contemporary History), the leading Czech-language academic journal in the field of contemporary history that has a twenty-year tradition. Through their translation into English, we want to make such articles accessible to a wider audience of readers and, thus, to strengthen and promote international academic discussion.
CONTENTS
Jan Bečka, Vít Smetana, Word from the Editors – 5
Essays and articles
Vilém Prečan, The Czech Twentieth Century? – 7
Dalibor Vácha, Tepluskas and Eshelons. Czechoslovak Legionaries on their Journey across Russia – 20
Stanislav Kokoška, Resistance, Collaboration, Adaptation. Some Notes on the Research of the Czech Society in the Protectorate – 54
Martin Franc, Jiří Knapík, “Getting Around to the Human Being in the Next Quarter”. Leisure Time in the Czech Lands 1948–1956 – 77
Michal Kopeček, The Stigma of the Past and the Bond of Belonging. Czech Communists in the First Decade after 1989 – 101
Prague Chronicle
Vít Smetana, An Unending Story with a Sudden End – and Its Immediate Consequences for East-Central Europe. The Numerous Impulses from the Prague Conference on the Cold War – 131
Book Reviews
Petr Kaplan, The Sudeten Germans and the Twilight of the First Republic – 149
Francis D. Raška, An American Monograph on the Protectorate – 155
Jan Bečka, Czechoslovaks on the Battlefields of Indochina – 159
Karel Hruby, In Praise of Roots – 165
Přemysl Houda, Rock and Politics in Communist Czechoslovakia – 176
Doubravka Olšakova, A Crazy Century of Memories – 180
Alessandro Catalano, Ideological Literature in Non-Ideological Perspective. The First Modern History of Czech Literature of the Socialist Era Comes Out Twenty Years after 1989 – 186
Adela Gjuričova, A British View of the Czech Right – 197
Summaries – 203
Authors – 213
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