1948 and 1968 Dramatic Milestones in Czech and Slovak History
This volume has been published to coincide with the anniversaries of two significant milestones in Czech and Slovak history the establishment of communist rule in 1948 and the Prague Spring of 1968 and in anticipation of the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Given the ultimate failure of the communist system, these events and their legacy for Czech and Slovak society and politics merit continued study, particularly given the wealth of new data made available when state and Party archives were finally opened in the 1990s.
The essays in this volume, by witnesses, historians and social scientists working in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the USA, Australia and Europe offer a reappraisal of those turbulent events. They present new and original research, based on information from archives which were not opened until after 1990 and which is not yet available to audiences who do not speak Czech or Slovak. This volume will, therefore, be of interest to both specialists and general readers who are curious to learn more about these events.
This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
Laura Cashman is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
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1948 and 1968 Dramatic Milestones in Czech and Slovak History
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1948 and 1968 Dramatic Milestones in Czech and Slovak History
Edited by Laura Cashman
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Contents
Laura Cashman
Vilm Prean
Stefan Auer
Martin Myant
Mary Heimann
Maud Bracke
Riikka Nisonen-Trnka
Libora Oates-Indruchov
Scott Brown
Juraj Maruiak
Charles Sabatos
STEFAN AUER is a Senior Lecturer in History and Politics at La Trobe University in Melbourne and Deputy Director of the Innovative Universities European Union Centre. His book, Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004) won the prize for Best Book in European Studies (2005) with the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). He has published articles in Critical Horizons, East European Politics and Societies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Osteuropa and elsewhere.
MAUD BRACKE is a Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Glasgow. Her most recent book Which Socialism, Whose Dtente? West European Communism and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 (CEU Press) was published in 2007. She has published articles in European Contemporary History, Journal of European Integration History and Soundings and she has contributed chapters to a number of edited volumes.
SCOTT BROWN is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Washington. His dissertation, Socialism with a Slovak Face: The Slovak Question in the 1960s, funded by a FulbrightHays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, examines the re-emergence of the Slovak question as a political issue and the role of a reactivated Slovak nationalism in the 1960s and upheaval of 1968. He has published an article in East European Politics and Societies and presented his research at academic conferences and forums in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Bratislava, Pittsburgh, Glasgow and Philadelphia.
LAURA CASHMAN is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Glasgow in 2007. Her doctoral thesis focused on Romani integration policies in the Czech Republic and her subsequent research continues to examine Czech politics and society and the integration of Romani communities in the EU. She has published articles in the Journal of Contemporary European Research and Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and a chapter in the edited volume, Trans-National Issues, Local Concerns: Insights from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and the UK (University Press of America, 2008).
MARY HEIMANN is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde, who has published widely in the field of English Catholic history and the history of modern Christian thought. Her next book, a revisionist history of the Czechoslovak state, is to be published by Yale University Press.
JURAJ MARUIAK is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences. His book Slovensk literatra a moc v druhej polovici 50.rokov (Slovak Literature and Political Power in the 1950s), was published by Prius in 2001. He has contributed many chapters to edited volumes and between 1999 and 2004 he edited Global Report Slovakia, published by the Institute of the Public Affairs, Bratislava.
MARTIN MYANT is a Professor at the University of the West of Scotland Business School, Paisley, UK. His has researched and published for many years on economic and political developments in East-Central Europe, concentrating on the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. Recent publications include: The Rise and Fall of Czech Capitalism: Economic Development in the Czech Republic since 1989 (Edward Elgar, 2003), Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries (Palgrave, 2007) edited jointly with David Lane, and Reinventing Poland: Economic and Political Transformation and Evolving National Identity (Routledge, 2008) jointly edited with Terry Cox.
RIIKKA NISONEN-TRNKA is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Tampere in Finland. Her thesis Scientific Relations between Czechoslovakia and the West in the Cold War Context examines cooperation of natural scientists in the Cold War period. She is currently working in the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki on the project Knowledge Through the Iron Curtain financed by the Finnish Academy.
