TY - BOOK AU - Rechcigl,Miloslav AU - Anderle,Josef AU - Andic,V.E. AU - Basch,Antonín AU - Beck,Curt F. AU - Blaho,Pavel AU - Borsody,Stephen AU - Bradley,J.F.N. AU - Brügel,J.W. AU - Bušek,Vratislav AU - Chalupa,Vlastislav J. AU - Den,Petr AU - Drábek,Jaroslav AU - Duben,Vojtěch N. AU - Eliáš,Andrej AU - Eubank,Keith AU - Feierabend,Ivo K. AU - Feierabend,Jana M. AU - Feierabend,Ladislav K. AU - Florescu,Radu R. AU - Gross,Feliks AU - Hajda,Joseph AU - Hanák,Harry AU - Hapala,Milan E. AU - Holbík,Karel AU - Ješina,Cestmír AU - Kann,Robert A. AU - Korbel,Josef AU - Kočvara,Štefan AU - Kárnet,George AU - Lazarčik,Gregor AU - Liška,George AU - Lobkowicz,Nikolaus AU - Mamatey,Victor S. AU - Mareš,Václav E. AU - Michal,Jan AU - Mudroch,Václav AU - Munk,Frank AU - Nehněvajsa,Jiří AU - Paleček,Anthony AU - Papánek,Ján AU - Polach,Jaroslav G. AU - Procházka,Adolf AU - Procházka,Theodore AU - Raditsa,Bogdan AU - Rechcigl,Miloslav AU - Rouček,Joseph S. AU - Rozehnal,Alois AU - Roček,Jan AU - Skála,Hugo M. AU - Slamecka,Vladimir AU - Tigrid,Pavel AU - Toma,Peter A. AU - Táborský,Edward AU - Tříska,Jan F. AU - Ulč,Otto AU - Vnuk,František AU - Wandycz,Piotr S. AU - Weinberg,Gerhard L. AU - Záček,Joseph F. AU - Šumichrast,Michael TI - Czechoslovakia Past and Present. T2 - Czechoslovakia Past and Present SN - 9783111243177 PY - 2019///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Table of Contents --; A. CZECHOSLOVAKIA THROUGH THE SECOND WORLD WAR --; 1. Rise and Fall of the First Czechoslovak Republic: Historical Aspects --; The Role of President Wilson in the Foundation of Czechoslovakia --; Formative Years of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia. The Statesmanship of Antonin Švehla --; The Entry of German Parties into the Czechoslovak Government --; The Second Czechoslovak Republic, September 1938-March 1939: A Study in Political Change --; The Establishment of Slovak Autonomy in 1938 --; Personal Recollection of a Few Episodes in Czecho-Slovak Relations --; Some Aspects of Carpatho-Ukrainian History in Post-Munich Czechoslovakia --; 2. The First Czechoslovak Republic: Social and Economic Aspects --; The Roots of Czechoslovak Democracy --; Political Parties in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 --; The Normological and Political Bases of the Legal Order of the First Czechoslovak Republic --; Czechoslovakia and International Organization --; Economic and Financial Policy of Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 --; Agriculture in the First Republic of Czechoslovakia --; The Progress of Czechoslovakia's Industrialization and its Effect upon National Unity --; Social Progress in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 --; 3. Czechoslovakia and the Second World War --; The Role of Czechoslovakia in the Origins of World War II --; Organization in the United States of the Struggle for Czechoslovakia's Independence, 1938 to 1941 --; The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: A Re-evaluation --; The Slovak Uprising of 1944 --; The Years of German Occupation, 1939-1945: The First Totalitarian Attack on the Czech Economy --; B. CONTEMPORARY CZECHOSLOVAKIA --; 1. Political Aspects --; The Political Role of the Coup of February 1948 in the History of Socialist Revolutions --; Action Committees: A Case Study of the Application and the Use of Action Committees in the Czechoslovak Nationalist Socialist Party --; The Power Structure of Today's Czechoslovakia --; Czechoslovakia's Relations with Underdeveloped Countries --; Czechoslovakia and the World Communist System --; Czechoslovakia Twenty Years After --; Futures of Czechoslovakia: Some Alternatives - Steps toward an Analytical Model --; 2. Social and Economic Aspects --; Economic Growth of Czechoslovakia Since World War II --; Short- and Long-Term Aspects of Changes in Czechoslovak Agriculture since the Second World War --; The New Economic System in Czechoslovakia --; The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance: Its First Fifteen Years --; Czechoslovak-Polish Cooperation in Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Energy: Foundation and Results --; Czechoslovak Postwar Housing: A Case Study of Communist Czechoslovakia Housing Production as Compared to the United States --; Public Welfare in Today's Czechoslovakia --; Class Struggle and Civil Law: The Case of Czechoslovakia --; Property Rights of Aliens under the Legal Order of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic --; 3. Cultural Aspects --; Contemporary Czechoslovak Philosophy --; The Age of John Hus in Recent Czechoslovak Historical Literature (1948-1961) --; Palacký: A Marxist Portrait --; The Literature of De-Stalinization --; Art in Communist Czechoslovakia --; Total Planning of Science on the National and International Levels --; The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences --; C. CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE WORLD --; 1. Czechoslovakia and its Neighbors: Nationalism versus Federalism --; Central Eastern Europe at the Mid-Century --; Czechoslovakia and Austria --; Czechoslovakia and Hungary --; Attempts at Czechoslovak-Polish Cooperation: Achievements and Failures --; Czechoslovakia and Rumania: A Brief Historical Retrospect --; Czechoslovak-Yugoslav Relations, 1933-1938 --; Natonalism versus Federalism in Central and Southeast Europe --; Czechoslovakia's Federalist Heritage: A Historical Perspective --; 2. Czechoslovakia and Great Powers --; Czechoslovak Independence and the Great Powers: Retrospect and Prospect --; Czechoslovakia and Germany, 1933-1945 --; Great-Britain and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1948: An Outline of their Relations --; Franco-Czechoslovak Relations 1918-1948 --; D. CZECHS AND SLOVAKS ABROAD --; The American Czechs, Slovaks, and Slavs in the Development of America's "Climate of Opinion" --; The Journalistic Endeavors of Czech and Slovak Exiles (1945-1964) --; Czech Poets in Exile --; Slovak Exile Literature; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111619774 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111619774 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111619774/original ER -