Soudobé Dějiny
Czech journal of contemporary history

Soudobé dějiny/ Czech Journal of Contemporary History is the journal of the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. In three issues per year, it publishes articles on Czech and Czechoslovak history from the 20th century to the present, as well as reviews of current publications and much more.

Soudobé dějiny has been published since 1993. Since 2021 it has appeared as a Czech-English journal entitled Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History three times a year, with two Czech issues and one English. It primarily aims to contribute to the development and shaping of the field of contemporary history in the Czech Republic and to the renewal and spread of the historical memory of the recent past. It endeavors to be open to a wide range of topics, methods and styles, to go beyond narrow definitions of the discipline of historiography and to integrate the other social sciences.

Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History publishes original research on the history of Czechoslovakia and the Bohemian/ Czech lands and the Czech Republic, in the "short" twentieth century to the present within a broader international context. Its articles, however, also consider the history and historiography of other countries, particularly those of Central Europe, as well as questions of theory and method in the writing of history.

The individual issues of the journal are usually focused on a central theme. The regular features of the journal include: discussions, reviews and notes. Each issue of Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History includes English-language summaries of the articles and reviews.

Editorial Team

Hana V. Bortlová (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences) - Deputy Executive Editor

Christiane Brenner (Collegium Carolinum, Munich)

Kateřina Čapková (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Markéta Devátá (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Milan Drápala (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences) - Executive Editor

Daniela Kolenovská (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Jiří Křesťan (Národní archiv)

Françoise Mayer (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier)

Veronika Pehe (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Petr Roubal (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Vít Smetana (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Vítězslav Sommer (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences) - Chief of Editorial Team

Jiří Suk (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Oldřich Tůma (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Jiří Vykoukal (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Editorial Board
Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic)

Chad Bryant (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

Peter Bugge (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Alessandro Catalano (University of Padua, Italy)

Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton, UK)

Jűrgen Danyel (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany)

Benjamin Frommer (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)

Maciej Górny (Polish Academy of Sciences, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Warsaw, Poland)

Magdalena Hadjiiski (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Université de Strasbourg, France)

Eva Hahn, Augustfehn

Miloš Havelka (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Adam Hudek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, Bratislava, Slovakia)

Tamás Kende (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

Jiří Knapík (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic)

Pavel Kolář (Universität Konstanz, Germany)

Michal Kopeček (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Sandrine Kott (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

Jan Kuklík(Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Mark Kramer (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)

James Krapfl (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

Jan Láníček (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Denisa Nečasová (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

Martin Nodl (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Alena Nosková (National Archives Czech Republic)

Libora Oates-Indruchová (University of Graz, Austria)

Andrea Orzoff (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA)

Vilém Prečan (The Czechoslovak Documentation Centre, Prague, Czech Republic)

Peter Ruggenthaler (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences, Graz, Austria)

Dušan Segeš (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, Bratislava, Slovakia)

Agáta Šústová Drelová (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, Bratislava, Slovakia)

Radka Šustrová (University of Cambridge, UK)

Victoria Vasilenko (Belgorod State University, Russian Federation)

Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Kieran Williams (Drake University, Des Moines, IA, USA)

Ella Zadorozhnyuk (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic studies, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Marína Zavacká (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, Bratislava, Slovakia)