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Josette Baer
The volume addresses the principal question why, given their common past under communist Soviet-type rule, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria accomplished EU membership, while Croatia, Macedonia, and Serbia have…
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Josette Baer Hill,Stanislav Sikora
Alexander Dubcek is well-known, so one might think; nothing new can be written about him. Is this true? Dubcek is the symbol of the Czechoslovak attempt to reform communism that…
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This book offers a fascinating insight into how film as a medium can portray political thought.
Baers biography of the former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis (19021952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slansky and other top Communist…
In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srob r, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. Spanning from…
Josette Baer,Dusan Kovac
This study, the first of its kind in English, presents an overview of Slovak intellectual history in the 19th century, including the debates surrounding the memorandum of 1861, the political…
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Josette Baer,Milan Zemko
Josette Baer retraces the eventful life of Slovak politician Vavro Arobar, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. From his student days and fight for Slovak…
Josette Baer,Jan Foltin
This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English to portray the lives and fates of Slovak women. These seven life stories, ranging from the late nineteenth…
Josette Baer,Karel Boruvka
This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Czech women. The seven life stories, ranging from the late 19th century…
Josette Baer,Vlasta Jaksicsova
Baer’s biography of the former Czechoslovak foreign minister Vladimir Clementis (1902-1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slansky and other top Communist…
A thought-provoking and inspiring read-about the present as well as the future.
This book deals with the Slovak National Uprising that was launched on 29 August 1944 in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. In the West, the uprising is an under-researched topic in the…
To the older generations in her native Slovakia, Hana Ponicka is well known for her successful children's books and courageous fight against the communist regime. This political biography is the…
From Post-Communism toward the third Millennium
Jabbar Moradi,Jasmin Dall"agnola,Josette Baer
The authors of PC on Earth take issue with a fashionable phenomenon emerging from North American campuses: the dangerous consequences of identity politics and pre-emptive conformism. This book is a…
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