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Central Bohemia
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Czechoslovakia
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Beauty spots in Czechoslovakia
Publikace přináší 145 převážně černobílých snímků ze všech koutů Čech, Moravy a Slovenska. Střídají se zde záběry známých i méně známých pohoří s pohledy na romantické skalní útvary, řeky, rybníky, nížiny aj. Fotografická část.
Zapadočeske Lázně
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Czechoslovakia-Prague Guide
An illustrated tourist guide to Czechoslovakia and its capital. Part one provides background information on geography, history and culture, as well as practical tips for planning tours and a select list of useful Czech phrases. Part two is a detailed guide to Prague with a background history, 14 suggested walks around the city, and listings of museums, theatres, restaurants, etc. Part three contains an A-Z gazetteer of other interesting towns and sights throughout Czechoslovakia, cross-referenced to a separate map and accompanied by town centre plans. Bratislava and Brno are covered in some detail. The guide includes a separate fold-up map of Czechoslovakia indicating campsights and petrol stations (1:1 000 000) with a Prague town plan on the reverse (1:15 000).
The Coasts of Bohemia
In The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline—a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of Europe, Czechs are usually encountered only in the margins of other people's stories. In The Coasts of Bohemia, Derek Sayer reverses this perspective. He presents a comprehensive and long-needed history of the Czech people that is also a remarkably original history of modern Europe, told from its uneasy center. Sayer shows that Bohemia has long been a theater of European conflict. It has been a cradle of Protestantism and a bulwark of the Coun...
Postcards from Absurdistan
A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia’s artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country’s socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague’s twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some “end of history,” whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed ...
The Sovietization of Eastern Europe
This essay anthology offers enlightening perspectives on how East-Central Europe was transformed into the “other” Europe during the Cold War era. When the Second World War ended, a new conflict arose between world powers jockeying for supremacy. The Soviet Union pursued a policy of exporting its system of government in a process known as sovietization. But there were also governments that sought to adopt a Soviet way of life on their own accord. Dictated by ideological imperatives, both styles of sovietization employed socialist strategies of state and nation building. This volume not only examines the imposition of new forms of government, but also the socialist response to modernity as...
Spartakiads
Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Involving hundreds of thousands of male and female performers of all ages and held in the world’s largest stadium—a space built expressly for this purpose—the synchronized and unified movements of the Czech citizenry embodied, quite literally, the idealized Socialist people: a powerful yet pliant force directed by the regime. This book explores the political, social, and aesthetic dimensions of these mass physical demonstrations, with a particular focus on their roots in the völkisch nationalism of the German Turner movement and the Czech Sokol gymnastic tradition. Featuring an abundance of photographs, Spartakiads takes a new approach to Communist history by opening a window onto the mentality and mundanity behind the Iron Curtain.
