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Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
This study presents an analysis of the images of the Soviet experiment in the daily press of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPCz) during the interwar period. The author tests the hypothesis that the idealized image of Soviet socialism replaced the coherent political program of the CPCz and describes the mechanisms of political communication of the communist vision of an ideal society. The...
This review article presents scholarly debates in the field of “Big History” since the late 20th century. Pomeranz’s groundbreaking book, Great Divergence, serves as a key reference throughout the article. It analyzes the interpretive approaches of the California School, to which Kenneth Pomeranz is often attributed. The initial section of the article provides a concise summary of the fundamental...
This study deals with the issue of the Czech and Slovak anti-communist exile in Spain during the first two decades of the Cold War. With a focus on the (im)mobility of these exiles and its productive character, it questions the well-known nature of the Iron Curtain. Through an analysis of (infra)structures and fixities already existing and further developed by these émigrés in Madrid (contacts, institutions,...