Prague Perspectives (I): The History of East Central Europe and Russia

edited by Petr Roubal and Václav Veber

published by The National Library of the Czech Republic - Slavonic Library, Prague 2004

ISBN 80-7050-443-9

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Preface

In Place of an Introduction: Twenty Five Years since the Death of Jan Slavík

Václav Veber

Section I: The History of East Central Europe

František Řehoř – Lover of the Galician Ruthenians

Petr Kaleta

Suspicious Slavonic Studies: The Case of Francis Dvornik’s The Slavs in European History and Civilisation

Petr Roubal

Planning the New East Central Europe: The Mid-European Democratic Union in the United States (1918)

Tomáš Zahradníček

Communism – Totalitarianism – Resistance

Václav Veber

The Yugoslav State Visit in the Soviet Union, June 1956

Jan Pelikán

The Winners, the Losers, the Embittered. The Disputes inside the Hungarian Workers’ Party’s Leadership during Spring and Summer 1956

Jan Adamec

Cooperation among Visegrad Countries in Relation to the Integration into the European Union

Karel Vít

Czech Historiography on Hungary

Zora Hlavičková

Conceptual History and Political Languages: On the Central-European Adaptation of the Contextualist-Conceptualist Methodologies of Intellectual History

Balázs Trencsényi

Section II: Russian and Soviet History

The Russian Myth: The 17^th Century Russian Reality Seen through Italian Eyes

Kateřina Zoufalá

M. M. Speransky and Russia at the Beginning of the 19^th Century

Radomír Vlček

Reviewing Masaryk – The International Response to T. G. Masaryk’s The Spirit of Russia

Martin Beisswenger a Petr Roubal

The Establishment of the Soviet Judicial and Penal System in the Early Days of the Bolshevik Dictatorship (1917-1924)

Lukáš Babka

Inter-national Loyalties: A/Olexander Dovzhenko’s Films in the Context of the Nationality Policy in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920’s

Oksana Sarkisova

“Russia and Europe” in the Concept of Hubert Ripka

Vladimír Goněc

The State of Historiography of Czech Communities Abroad

Jaroslav Vaculík

Czech Historiography after November 1989 on Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian History: Difficulties and Political Context

Emil Voráček

Bibliography of the Czech historiography on Russia and the Soviet Union and on Czechoslovak-Soviet or Czech-Russian Relations since 1917

Emil Voráček

Section III: Russian Emigration in Czechoslovakia

Commercial Relations between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in the 1920’s: Information and Supporting Organizations

Martin Marek

The Russian People’s / Free University in Prague 1923-1945

Jaromír Mach

Альфред Бем – homo politicus

Miluša Bubeníková

Очерк из жизни русской эмиграции в Словакии
в 1939-1945 Гг.

Lubica Harbulová

Index