review November 2024

The last postcard from Prague

Review by Felix Jeschke

Statue of David Cerny in Prague. A statue of a horse is suspended from the ceiling by its legs, with a figure sitting on its belly. The figure is St Wenceslas. He is sitting straight on the hanging horse with a spear in his right hand. The statue is located inside a passage. The walls are painted yellow and they are adorned with various abstract motives. Below shopfronts are visible.

In the third book of Derek Sayer’s loose trilogy on Czech cultural history, Postcards from Absurdistan (Princeton University Press, 2022), the author offers a cultural history of Prague from 1938 to 1989, weaving together a narrative from the lives of individuals. Felix Jeschke writes that, despite some qualms, this readable book is a deserving conclusion of the trilogy.

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Left-wing agency and the question of social morality in Russia

by Veronika Pfeilschifter

Interview November 2024

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Interview with Eva Taterová, Czechoslovak Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1948-1989), GAČR-funded project

by Andrea Talabér

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Remembering the last decade of Eastern Europe

Review by Aleksandra Komornicka

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Fear in public and private in East Germany

Review by Jack Dean

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The unknown story of the Soviet Eastern International

Review by Aleksandr Korobeinikov

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State approaches to family in Poland, Hungary and Romania

Review by Orel Beilinson

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