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The author looks back at the career of the historian Mečislav Borák (b. 1945) on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, and discusses a large selection of his publications. He emphasizes Borák’s well-rooted regional interests in Těšínsko (CieszynSilesia, Těšín Silesia, or Teschen Silesia) and Czech Silesia, which, however, Borák has successfully moved beyond to precisely include the Czechoslovak and international context, as well as linking together micro- and macro history. He has always been interested in ordinary people, whose life stories he has put into the larger framework of ‘big’ history in an interesting and original way. He has repeatedly returned to topics that have interested him, each time coming up with new facts and views, allowing him to review and expand previous conclusions, and to add considerably to our knowledge of these histories. Before the Changes of late 1989, Borák focused on topics of the German occupation and the resistance to it. Later,he expanded his areas of interest to include research on acts of political oppression against the people of Czechoslovakia and, more broadly, central and eastern Europe, from the late 1930's to the mid-1950's. He was a pioneer in research on the courts of retribution. A distinctive area of his research was his work on the history of the Shoah and various forms of persecution of the Jews. Another of his later key topics was the Katyn massacre and its victims from the Bohemian Lands. From here Borák proceeded to search for, record, and make sense of cases of the political persecution of Czechs and Slovaks in the Soviet Union. His most recent field of research is the Polish minority and inter-ethnic relations in the context of Czechoslovak-Polish and Czech-Polish contemporary history. His academic career has long been connected with the University of Ostrava, the University of Silesiain Opava, the Silesian Museum, also in Opava, and the Institute of Contemporary History, in Prague. Professor Borák has published two dozen specialist books and more than 150 articles. He has participated in at least three dozen research projects,worked extensively as an editor, expert, and consultant, and also written works of journalism and popular history. Of the more than a dozen documentary films he has worked on as a screen-writer and narrator, the film Zločin jménem Katyň (A Crime Called Katyn), was particularly well received, and won a number of prizes at international film festivals.
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The author sums up the life and career of Lenka Kalinová (1924–2014), who was for a long time the leading authority on the social history of Czechoslovakia, particularly of the years after the Second World War. In the 1960's, she established and led a team of scholars to analyse the social structure of Czechoslovakia as it had developed from 1918 onward. In 1970, she lost her job, but in the following years worked with specialized institutions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary,and eventually also published intensively in both countries. New opportunities opened up for her in the early 1990's, when she began to work closely with the Institute of Contemporary History, part of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In consequence of her years of work in the field of theory of social and economic history,she published two syntheses in which she made good use of a great deal of facts in order to identify and explain basic trends in Czech society and politics from 1945 to 1993.
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Mit Josef Čermák ist ein gelehrter Literaturwissenschaftler, Kafka‑Kenner, Heraus‑geber, Übersetzer und langjähriger Verlagsmitarbeiter dahingegangen.Er wurde im Riesengebirgsvorland in eine Bauernfamilie geboren. Wen
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Narodila se 17. června 1935 v Praze a celý život bydlela v Klimentské 17 na Novém Městě. Tady také chodila do školy v Klimentské a Truhlářské ulici a později přešla na dívčí osmileté gymnázium Charlotty Masarykové v Dušní ulici. Po jeho ukončení se v roce 1953 rozhodla jít studovat sociologii na Filozofickou fakultu Univerzity Karlovy. Po složení státní závěrečné zkoušky v roce 1958 obhájila kandidátskou disertaci na téma „Historie YMCA v Československu 1918–1939“ v roce 1965 a ve druhé polovině šedesátých let připravila habilitační práci „Studentské hnutí v České republice — nové levicové hnutí v Evropě 1967–1969“. Obhájila ji v habilitačním řízení na jaře roku 1969, ale docenturu již neobdržela.
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