Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Cold War and Contemporary Understandings of the Communist Takeover of Czechoslovakia
  • World War Two and the East European revolution
  • Intellectuals in the Czech environment
  • Four groups of postwar Czech intellectuals
  • The communist aim : the creation of a new Czechoslovakia
  • The battle over the recent past I : the experiences of Munich and the World War II
  • The battle over the recent past II : the First Republic and Tomáš G. Masaryk
  • The Shift in Sensibilities and Generations : May 5, 1945, versus October 28, 1918
  • The reorientation of national identity : Czechs between East and West
  • Socialism and communist intellectuals : the "Czechoslovak road to socialism"
  • Socialism and democratic socialist intellectuals : the "new socialist ethos"
  • Socialism and Roman Catholic intellectuals : the "fateful struggle between spirit and matter"
  • Socialism and Protestant intellectuals : the Kingdom of God on earth?
  • The end of Czechoslovak democracy and the rise of communism in Eastern Europe.