Dobrodružství historické interpretace

Title in English: The Adventure of Historical Interpretation This collection of nineteen essays written by prominent historians demonstrates the diversity of academic approaches. Their work with historical sources, the foundation stone of research, is combined with ethical and aesthetic decision-making, which forms an indisputable part of their work. This is often surprising - both for the readers and themselves. It represents a great intellectual adventure. They cannot invent sources or set arbitrary rules, plots, and twists and turns, as a novelist might. However, they can write a scientific work which is the result of a creative approach

The journey of the cooperative Pragomašina Slaný to the USSR. 1923-1924

The first Czechoslovak cooperative to immigrate to the Soviet Union for work was founded in 1923. In the context of the Czechoslovakian Relief Action, pro-Soviet agitation of Czechoslovak Communists and the Soviet internal policies the study considers the cooperative leaderships’ possibilities to fulfil the original contract in Soviet Georgia and to increase Czechoslovak export opportunities

The Soviet Public Diplomacy. Great Britain and France in the Foreign Policy of the USSR. 1935-1938.

The Soviet Union tried, after the Nazis took power in Germany, to build up an antifascist coalition with Great Britain and France. Wide institutional framework of Soviet soft power was introduced to support Moscow's weak position. The British and French public reaction was positive, but it was not strong enough to force the governments to fulfil Soviet economic and security expectations. The Civil War in Spain disapproved the Soviet attempt to collaborate with the Great Powers and the strategy of collective security was withdrawn