Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Contemporary History

Recent papers from Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Contemporary History

1. Czech Women Scientists in the Course of Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes: Case Study for the Natural Sciences2026
2. Navigating ambiguity: context sensitivity as a foundation for resilient academic leadershipStudies in Higher Education · 2026
3. Industrial Enterprise in Two Globalizations: The Czechoslovak Footwear Industry between Socialist Economic Exchange and Global Capitalism, 1980s–1990sEast European Politics and Societies and Cultures · 2026
4. Nothing Was Available and Everything Was PossibleCommunist and Post-Communist Studies · 2026
5. Czechoslovakia and the Boycott of Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1984Journal of Olympic Studies · 2026
6. Transforming the Religious Field: Czechoslovak Jehovah's Witnesses between Socialism and Post‐socialism*Journal of Religious History · 2026
7. ‘Like-minded and like-acting.’ Central Europe, the West, and the overlooked factor of the Warsaw Pact’s demiseJournal of Strategic Studies · 2025
8. Did Women's Rights Have a Place in Eastern European Human Rights Dissent? The Case of Charter 77 and Czechoslovakia, 1977–1992Contemporary European History · 2025
9. Internationalist blood: Karel Holubec and the diffusion of Duran Jordà’s method of blood transfusion to Czechoslovakia, 1930s–50sMedical History · 2025
10. Postsocialism as a CrimeEast Central Europe · 2024
11. Dissent between the Politics of Memory and Digital History / On the Creation of the Online Database "Bibliography of Ecological and Environmental Issues in Czechoslovak Samizdat"Soudobé dějiny · 2024
12. Thurston, Alexander. 2020. Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 349 pp. ISBN 9781108771160.Modern Africa Politics History and Society · 2024
13. Czechoslovak-Iranian Relations in 1968 – 1978: Cooperation Across the Cold War BarriersAsian and African Studies · 2024
14. Post-1989 women’s struggle between career growth and everyday dutiesJournal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe · 2024
15. Legal, illegal, either way informal: examining continuities of small-scale entrepreneurship between late socialism and postsocialism in CzechiaDebatte Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe · 2024
16. A Hub of Anti-Colonialism: Prague's International Organizations in the Transnational Socialist Network and Global Cold WarJournal of Contemporary History · 2024
17. Vejprty: The Story of a Declining Border Micro-Region in Bohemia2024
18. The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical explorationScience and Public Policy · 2023
19. Poking Fun at the Transformation: Postsocialist TV Satire in the 1990sVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture · 2022
20. Extinct Settlements and Their Reflection in the Land-Use Changes and Historical Landscape ElementsLand · 2022