Po stopách stalinismu v Brně
Through Stalinist Brno

Summary/Abstract: Brummer, Alexandr, and Michal Konečný. Brno stalinistické: Průvodce městem. Brno: Host, 2015, 288 pp., ISBN 978-80-7491-478-2.The publication under review is a historical guidebook, with entries and accompanying photographs on almost fifty places and buildings in Brno, the capital of Moravia. Its focus, however, is the city in the period of Czechoslovak Stalinism, that is, from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. The reviewer discusses the form of the book and some of the important background to Brno in that period. He appreciates the fact that although the book is intended for the general public this is not to the detriment of its scholarship and the reliability of its facts. He does, nevertheless, see a small shortcoming in the absence of a substantial introduction and chronology of events in Czechoslovakia in this period.

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