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Livet er et annet sted er en oppvekstskildring og et ironisk epos som river ned hellige verdier: barndommen, morsrollen, revolusjonen – til og med poesien. Romanens hovedperson …

I den tidligere konsentrasjonsleiren Theresienstadt i Nordböhmen samles ungdom fra hele Europa for å bevare festningsbyen fra forfall og rivning. Fra Theresienstadt beveger …

The book traces the story of how a song recorded in 1981 by a young punk rock band from a cultural backwater on the English-Welsh border, and released on a tiny independent record …

In the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman …

This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Slovak women. The seven life stories, ranging from the late 19th …

The story of Czech theatre in the 20th century involves generations of mesmerizing players and memorable productions. Beyond these artistic considerations, however, lies a larger …

The book focuses on the description and analysis of the historical formation of the Czechoslovak and Czech positions in the international system during the course of the 20th …

Transforming Socialist Economies presents - for the first time - an account of the initial attempts to transform the centrally planned economies of Czechoslovakia and Poland into …