Cesta za Josefem Borovičkou
In search of Josef Borovička

Author(s): Jiří Lach
Subject(s): History, History of ideas, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Communism
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Josef Borovička; historical research; communism;
Summary/Abstract: After 1989, historiographical research focused on the most important figures in modern Czech historical science. The choice of historians often followed the path established by František Kutnar in his Overview of History from the 1970s. The fifty-year hiatus in historical research during the Nazi occupation and under the Soviet-sponsored regime called for numerous wrongs to be atoned for and for works which had been written decades before to be published. Marek’s Jaroslav Goll and Kalista’s study of Pekař rehabilitated both the authors and the subjects of their biographical interest. In particular, Jaroslav Goll is associated with the development of Czech historical sciences, while the foundation of the independent state dramatically increased the diversity of the discipline and strengthened and enlarged its institutional structure, which in turn increased the number of historians. After 1948, the life and work of many of these historians had become taboo as they were not part of the canon of communist science.

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