Reflections on the 100th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Jacques Rupnik discusses different approaches to the history of the KSČ.
La caída del muro de Berlín y el proceso de democratización en Checoslovaquia
The article traces the causes that led to the fall of the Berlin wall in November of 1989 in the light of the events that took place then of recent historiographical analysis. The whole region and beyond its confines underwent radical changes. Czechoslovakia was one of the countries that embarked on an economic and political transformation via a pe...
A Matter of Courtesy: The Role of Soviet Diplomacy and Soviet "System Safeguards" in Maintaining Soviet Influence on Cze...
Published in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
In 1969, a few short months after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Sergei I. Prasolov, advisor to the Soviet Ambassador in Prague, informed František Šorm, President of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, at a formal meeting that he welcomed Šorm's suggestion to intensify scientific exchange between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union....
A fragmented career? Life and work of the Jewish pathologist Kurt Aterman (1913-2002).
Published in Pathology, research and practice
Kurt Aterman (1913-2002) is regarded one of the leading experimental pathologists of his time with a strong focus on pediatric and hepatopathology. Without doubt, he is also one of the most international representatives of his field: Grown up in the German-speaking area, he studied medicine in the former Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom, and t...
Cinematic Representation of the Roma’s Social Position and Mobility: A Comparative Analysis of Two Czech and Slovak Feat...
Published in Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology
The focus of this article is on two Czech and Slovak films, My Friend Fabián (Můj přítel Fabián, 1955) and Gypsy (Cigán, 2011). While the former emerged in the 1950s, in the period of socialist industrialisation, the latter was released in the period of post-socialist consolidation of capitalism. Theoretically this article relies on a mix of approa...
«Praga è sola»: il Sessantotto in Cecoslovacchia raccontato dalla stampa italiana (gennaio 1968 –settembre 1969) / «Prag...
La Primavera di Praga è stato uno degli eventi più significativi del 1968, capace di lasciare larghe tracce nella storia del ‘900 europeo. Analizzando i principali quotidiani e riviste italiane del periodo, questo saggio intende fornire un’interpretazione delle linee di lettura, delle analisi e delle cronache giornalistiche più interessanti di quel...
Psychopaths as the 'New Danger' to Socialist Society: Forensic Psychiatry, Criminology, and Crime in the Czechoslovakia ...
In 1971, the annual Czechoslovak forensic psychiatric conference took place in the mountain town of Špindlerův Mlýn. Psychiatrists from all around the country met to discuss current issues in the field. One major topic emerged from the discussions: psychopathy and recidivism as the 'new danger' to Czechoslovakia's socialist society. Whereas before,...
Czech and Slovak life scripts: the rare case of two countries that used to be one.
Published in Memory (Hove, England)
In this study, we examined cultural life scripts in two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The cultural life script is semantic knowledge about culturally shared expectations regarding the order and timing of important life events during an idealised life course. For many decades, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were one country: Czechoslo...
Conflicts of Law in Domestic Jurisdictions in Interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia / Międzydzielnicowe prawo prywatne w mi...
In the interwar years multiple jurisdictions existed within Poland and Czecho-slovakia. This article describes how these countries dealt with this problem and how and with what degree of success they tried to solve it. The system of inter-regional law or rather laws that were in force in those countries is also described and, above all, the connect...
»Provociram, ker je politika pojedla literaturo.« Teorija in literatura v slovenski in češkoslovaški študentski periodik...
V burnem letu 1968 so študentska gibanja na Zahodu iskala ideološko oporo v marksistični teoriji in vzpostavljala ambivalenten odnos s strukturalizmom. Ob prepletu strukturalistične in marksistične misli se je revolucija z ulic prenašala tudi v tekst in posledično v literaturo (in vice versa). Ta položaj se je ob novih medijih in rahljanju političn...
