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BOOKS:

“The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation”: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism. Harvard Cold War Book Series. Oxford/Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, publication forthcoming in Spring 2004.

Editor. Prague in the New Central Europe. Prague: Sociological Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1991.

ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES:

“Allierte Planungen und Entscheidungen zur Nachkriegslösung des deutsch-tschechischen Konflikts.” In: Barbara Coudenhove und Oliver Rathkolb, Hg. Die Beneš-Dekrete. Wien: Czernin Verlag, 2002. 118-29.

“The Marshall Plan and Czechoslovak Democracy: Elements of Interdependency.” In: Martin Schain, ed. The Marshall Plan. Fifty Years After. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 93-116.

“The Price of Retribution: The Trial of Jozef Tiso.” In: István Deák, Jan Gross and Tony Judt, eds. The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 252-89.

“The Czech Republic: Annus Horribilus and Recovery” and “Slovakia: An Isolated and Divided House.” In: Per Jacobsen, ed. Øststatus 1997. København: C. A. Reitzel, 1998.

“Signs of Ill Health for East Europe's ‘Golden Child’?: The Czech Republic in 1996” and “‘Mečiar or Europe’?: Recent Developments in Slovakia.” In: Per Jacobsen, ed. Øststatus 1996. København: C. A. Reitzel, 1997.

“L’existentialisme et la politique tchèque.” In: Dominique Lapierre, ed. Europe 1946: Entre le deuil et l'espoir. Caen: Éditions Complexe, 1996.

 ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

“Historicizing the Ahistorical, or Why There Was a Central Europe in the 1980s.” Submitted to Central European History.

“World War Two and the East European Revolution.” In: East European Politics and Societies 16.3 (2002) 623-64.

“Who Lost Czechoslovakia? Reconsidering the Communist Takeover Fifty Years Later.” In: Intermarium 3 (1999). URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/ECE/intermar.html.
See also http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/ECE/abrams.pdf.

“The Price of Retribution: The Trial of Jozef Tiso.” East European Politics and Societies 10 (1996) 255-92.

“Die Vertreibung der Sudetendeutschen und die tschechoslowakische Opposition in den 70er Jahren.” Transit. Europaische Revue 10 (1995) 174-93.

“Morality, Wisdom and Revision: The Czech Opposition of the 1970s and the Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.” East European Politics and Societies 9 (1995) 244-55.

“Leopold Kompert and Fritz Mauthner: Bookends of Bohemian Jewish Identity.” Bohemia (Munich). A Journal of History and Civilisation in East Central Europe 33 (1992) 282-298.

“The Austro-Czech Jewish Intelligentsia of 1848 and the Oesterreichisches Central-Organ fuer Glaubensfreiheit, Cultur, Geschichte und Literatur der Juden.” Bohemia (Munich). A Journal of History and Civilisation in East Central Europe 31 (1990) 1-20.

 

OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Review of Ivan Berend. History Derailed. Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. In: Canadian-American Slavic Studies. Publication forthcoming.

Review of Claire E. Nolte. The Sokol in the Czech Lands to 1914. Training for the Nation. New York: Palgrave, 2002. In: The Journal of Modern History. Publication forthcoming.

Review of Stefan Creutzberger und Manfred Görtemaker, hrsg. Gleichschaltung unter Stalin? Die Entwicklung der Parteien im östlichen Europa 1944-1949. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2002. In: Slavic Review. Publication forthcoming.

Review of Detlef Brandes. Der Weg zur Vertreibung 1938-1945. Pläne und Entscheidungen zum “Transfer” der Deutschen aus der Tschechoslowakei und aus Polen. München: R. Oldenbourg, 2001. In: The Journal of Modern History. Publication forthcoming in 2003.

Review of Jörg K. Hoensch and Hans Lemburg, eds. Begegnung und Konflict. Schlaglichter auf das Verhältnis von Tschechen, Slowaken und Deutschen 1815-1989. Essen: Klartext, 2001. Publication forthcoming in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 51/3 (2002) 438-9. Also available online in Sehepunkt 2/9 (2002) at http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2002/09/3898610020.html.

Review of Gernot Heiss, Alena Mišková, Jiří Pešek, and Oliver Rathkolb, eds. An der Bruchlinie. Österreich und die Tschechoslowakei nach 1945 - Na rozhraní světů. Rakousko a Československo po 1945. Innsbruck, Wien: Studienverlag, 1998. In: Austrian History Yearbook. 32 (2001) 315-7.

Review of Miklós Kun. Prague Spring – Prague Fall: Blank Spots of 1968. Budapest: Akadémiai Kaidó, 1999. In: HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews, May, 2000.
URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=7833958143032.

Review of Deborah Cornelius. In Search of the Nation. Boulder: EEM, 1998. In: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung 49 (2000) 289-90.

Review of Jaromír Navrátil, chief editor. The Prague Spring 1968. A National Security Archive Documents Reader. Budapest: CEU Press, 1998. In:HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews, June, 1999. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11490928517680

“Victorious February Fifty Years On: Historians Meet in Prague to Discuss the Communist Takeover of Czechoslovakia.” Intermarium 2 (1998).
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/ECE/intermar.html.

 

 

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