A History of Czechoslovakia, 1918-1992
Bradley Abrams
1. 2 September. Introduction.
2. 4 September. History of the Territory and its Inhabitants before 1918.
Bruce Garver. "The Czechoslovak Tradition: An Overview." In: Hans Brisch and Ivan Volgyes, eds. Czechoslovakia: The Heritage of Ages Past. East European Monographs 51. Boulder: East European Quarterly, Distributed by Columbia UP, 1979. 25-57.
Carol Skalnik Leff. "The Historical Preconditions for National Conflict." In: Carol Skalnik Leff. National Conflict in Czechoslovakia. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988. 11-41.
3. 9 September. World War One and the Birth of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Victor S. Mamatey. "The Establishment of the Republic." In: Victor S. Mamatey and Radomír LuĎa, eds. A History of the Czechoslovak Republic 1918-1948. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1973. 3-38.
Jaroslav Opat. "On the Emergence of Czechoslovakia." In: H. Gordon Skilling, ed. Czechoslovakia, 1918-1988. Seventy Years from Independence. Macmillan: Houndmills, 1991. 41-52.
Translations of the "Pittsburgh Agreement" and the "Declaration of the Slovak Nation."
4. 11 September. The Delimitation of the Boundaries and the Securing of the State.
Václav L. Beneä. "Czechoslovak Democracy and Its Problems." In: Mamatey and LuĎa, eds. 39-98.
5. 16 September. Aspects of the First Republic I: Politics and Economics.
Joseph Rothschild. "Czechoslovakia." In: Joseph Rothschild. East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars. A History of East Central Europe 9. Seattle: Univ. of Washington, 1974. 86-135.
Alice Teichová. The Czechoslovak Economy 1918-1980. London/New York: Routledge, 1988. ###.
6. 18 September. Aspects of the First Republic II: Society and Culture.
Karel âapek. "Let's Be Revolutionary," "Children of the Poor," and "At the Crossroads of Europe." In: Karel âapek. Toward the Radical Center. Ed. by Peter Kussi. Highland Park, NY: Catbird, 1990. 332-6, 399-408.
Andrew Lass. "'What Are We Like?': National Character and the Aesthetics of Distinction in Interwar Czechoslovakia." In: Ivo Banac and Katherine Verdery, eds. National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe. New Haven: Yale Center for International Area Studies, 1995. 39-64.
Tomáä G Masaryk. "Czechoslovakia and the World." In: George J. Kovtun, ed. The Spirit of Thomas G. Masaryk (1850-1937). London: Macmillan, 1990. 218-36.
One other reading, perhaps Karel âapek's play R.U.R.
7. 23 September. Aspects of the First Republic III: The Slovak Question.
Carol Skalnik Leff. "Political Structure and National Conflict: The First Republic, 1918-1938." In: Leff. 45-85.
8. 25 September. Aspects of the First Republic IV: The German Question.
J. W. Bruegel. "The Germans in Pre-war Czechoslovakia." In: Mamatey and LuĎa, eds. 167-87.
Ronald M. Smelser. "Castles on the Landscape: Czech German Relations." In Skilling, ed. 82-102.
Radomír LuĎa. "Economic and Social Foundations of the German-Czech Problem." In: The Transfer of the Sudeten Germans. New York: New York UP, 1964. 1-20.
9. 30 September. Problems of the First Republic V: The Development of the Communist Party.
Zdenűk L. Suda. Zealots and Rebels. A History of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. Stanford: Hoover, 1980. 104-54.
10. 2 October. The End of the First Republic: Munich.
Kieth Eubank. "Munich." In: Mamatey and LuĎa, eds. 239-52.
Josef Frederick Zacek. "The Czechoslovak View." In: Maya Latynski, ed. Reappraising the Munich Pact. Continental Perspectives. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992. 47-59.
Karel Bartoäek. "Could We Have Fought? The 'Munich Complex' in Czech Politics and Czech Thinking." In: Stone and Strouhal, eds. 101-19.
"Conflict of Opinion." In: Dwight E. Lee, ed. Munich: Blunder, Plot or Tragic Necessity? Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1970. xv-xvi.
Chronology and set of cartoons.
11. 7 October. The Second Republic and the First Breakup of Czechoslovakia.
Theodor Prochazka. "The Second Republic, 1938-1939." In: Mamatey and LuĎa, eds. 255-70.
Ivo K. Feierabend. "The Second Czechoslovak Republic, September 1938 - March 1939. A Study in Political Change." In: Rechcigl, ed. 65-75.
12. 9 October. The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Gotthold Rhode. "The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1945." In: Mamatey and LuĎa, eds. 296-321.
13. 14 October. The Slovak Republic.
Jörg K. Hoensch. "The Slovak Republic, 1939-1945." In: Mamatey and LuĎa, eds. 271-95.
Stanislav J. Kirschbaum. "The Slovak Republic, 1939-1945." In: Stanislav J. Kirschbaum. A History of Slovakia. The Struggle for Survival. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. 185-204.
14. 16 October. Exile Politics in London and Moscow.
Edward Taborsky. "Politics in Exile, 1939-1945." In: Mamatey and LuĎa, eds. 322-42.
Tad Szulc. "The Liberation of Prague: The Red Army Arrives." In: Tad Szulc. Czechoslovakia Since World War II. New York: Viking Press, 1971. 5-15.
Suda. 157-77.
15. 21 October. The Third Republic, 1945-1948.
Hans Renner. A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945. London/New York: Routledge, 1989. 1-18.
Radomír LuĎa. "Czechoslovakia Between Democracy and Communism, 1945-1948." In: Mamatey and LuĎa, eds. 387-415.
Jacques Rupnik. "Czechoslovakia: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them." In: Jacques Rupnik. The Other Europe. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1988. 87-107.
"Antonín Liehm." In: Antonín Liehm, ed. The Politics of Culture. New York: Grove, 1973. 46-51.
16. 23 October. The Communist Takeover and its Immediate Consequences.
Milan Kundera. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Houndmills: Penguin, ###. ###-###.
M. R. Myant. "Prelude to February," "The February Crisis" and "Post-February Czechoslovakia." In: M. R. Myant. Socialism and Democracy in Czechoslovakia 1945-1948. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981. 181-242.
17. 28 October. Midterm Exam.
18. 30 October. Stalinization and Stalinist Continuity, 1948-1962.
Renner. 19-33.
Tad Szulc. "The Great Purge." In: Szulc. 79-110.
"The Slánsků Trial." In: Gale Stokes, ed. From Stalinism to Pluralism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 71-7.
Milan Kundera. The Joke. Houndmills: Penguin, 1984. 22-43.
19. 4 November. Reform Winds Blowing, 1963-1968.
Renner. 34-48.
Vladimir V. Kusin. "Conclusion." In: Vladimir V. Kusin. The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1971. 132-43.
"Slovakia" and "Pressures from Slovakia and the Youth." In: Galia Golan. The Czechoslovak Reform Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1971. 189-209, 255-65.
"Ludvík Vaculík." Speech at the IVth Writers' Congress (1967) In: Duäan Hamäík. Writers Against Rulers. London: Hutchinson, 1971. 181-97.
Teichová. ###.
20. 6 November. The Prague Spring.
Renner. 49-85.
21. 11 November. "Normalization."
Renner. 86-117.
Milan Simecka. The Restoration of Order. The Normalization of Czechoslovakia. London: Verso, 1984. ###-###.
Film: The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
22. 13 November. The Era of Stagnation and the Activities of Charter 77.
Renner. 102-147.
H. Gordon Skilling. "Parallel Politics." In: H. Gordon Skilling. Samizdat and Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1989. 123-54.
Brad Abrams. "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.
23. 18 November. Václav Havel and the Dilemmas of Dissidence.
Václav Havel. "The Power of the Powerless." In: Václav Havel, et al. The Power of the Powerless. John Keane, ed. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1985. 23-96.
Václav Havel. "Audience," "Private View," and "Protest." In: Václav Havel. Three Vanűk Plays. London: Faber & Faber, 1990. 1-74.
24. 20 November. The Decline of the Regime and the Spread of Opposition in the Late 1980s.
Renner. 148-61.
Gale Stokes. The Walls Came Tumbling Down. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993. 148-57.
Bernard Wheaten and Zdenűk Kavan. The Velvet Revolution. Czechoslovakia 1989-1991. Boulder: Westview, 1992. 23-36.
25. 25 November. The "Velvet Revolution."
Wheaten and Kavan. ###-###.
Timothy Garton Ash. The Magic Lantern. New York: Random House, 1990. 78-130.
26. 27 November. Thanksgiving. No meeting.
27. 2 December. The First Years of Freedom, 1990-1992.
Tony Judt. "Metamorphosis: The Democratic Revolution in Czechoslovakia." In: Ivo Banac, ed. Eastern Europe in Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992. 96-116.
Peter Bugge. "The Czech Republic." In: Bogdan Szajkowski, ed. Political Parties of Eastern Europe, Russia and the Successor States. Essex: Longman, 1994. 149-60.
Karen Henderson. "The Slovak Republic." In: Szajkowski, ed. 525-34.
Jifiina ·iklová. "The 'Grey Zone' and the Future of Dissent in Czechoslovakia." In: Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz, ed. Good-bye, Samizdat. Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Underground Writing. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern UP, 153-9.
28. 4 December. The Second Breakup of Czechoslovakia.
Sharon Wolchik. "The Politics of Ethnicity in Post-Communist Czechoslovakia." East European Politics and Societies 8 (1994) 153-88.
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