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To the older generations in her native Slovakia, Hana Ponická is well-known for her successful children¿s books and courageous fight against the communist regime. Her psychological ordeal began in February 1977 when the elderly lady refused to sign the so-called anticharta, a condemnation of the human rights group Charter 77, which had published its first manifesto in the West on 1 January 1977. All Slovak and Czech artists had to sign the ant...

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 century to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Slovakia through the eyes of prominent women whose acts and deeds on behalf of their fellow citizens remain unforgotten in the Slovak collective mind. The four chapters and three oral history interview...

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In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srobár, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. Spanning from his student days and his fight for Slovak civil rights in Upper Hungary via his ministerial positions during the First Czechoslovak Republic to his active resistance against German fascism, Baer's research paints a most comprehensive picture. ...

In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srobár, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. Spanning from his student days and his fight for Slovak civil rights in Upper Hungary via his ministerial positions during the First Czechoslovak Republic to his active resistance against German fascism, Baer's research paints a most comprehensive picture. ...

Alexander Dub¿ek is well-known, so one might think, nothing new can be written about him. Is this true? Dub¿ek is the symbol of the Czechoslovak attempt to reform communism that gained worldwide admiration in 1968. The invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in the night of August 21, 1968 set a brutal end to the Prague Spring. Josette Baer¿s new biography focuses on Dub¿ek¿s early years, his childhood in Soviet Kirghizia, his participation in the Sl...

Baer's biography of the former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Vladimír Clementis (1902-1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slánský and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952. Born in Tisovec, Central Slovakia, Clementis studied law at Charles University in Prague in the 1920s and had his own law firm in Bratislava in the 1930s. After the Munich Agreement of 1938, h...

Seit der Vertreibung aus dem Garten Eden ist der Mensch gezwungen, sein Brot im Schweisse seines Angesichts zu essen. Ist die Arbeit also nur ein notwendiges Übel zur Sicherung der Existenz? Oder ist sie vielmehr ein Gut an sich? Eine Vorform des Sittlichen auf dem Weg zur Selbstwerdung? Eine Tätigkeit, die unserem Dasein erst Sinn verleiht? Gibt es daher ein Recht auf Arbeit? Auch für Kinder? Oder ist Kinderarbeit im Gegenteil missbräuchlich?...

Jede Wissenschaft, sofern im Zentrum ihrer Diskurse und Forschungsbemühungen der Mensch steht, hat in besonderem Maße seiner Körperlichkeit Rechnung zu tragen. Die Körperlichkeit ist Inbegriff menschlicher Endlichkeit und Hinfälligkeit. In der Körperlichkeit bringt sich das Sein zum Tode und zur Krankheit des Menschen zum Ausdruck. So ist es kein Zufall, dass in einer interdisziplinären Sicht auf den Körper die medizinische zunächst im Vorderg...

Vertrauen ist gut. Denn es ist die Grundbedingung menschlichen Zusammenlebens - in persönlichen, sozialen, beruflichen und geschäftlichen Beziehungen. Freundschaft und Familie, Gesellschaft und Staat, Politik, Handel und Wirtschaft sind essentiell auf Vertrauen angewiesen. Dagegen glaubt die Spruchweisheit aus schlechter Erfahrung enttäuschten Vertrauens zu wissen, dass Kontrolle, also Misstrauen, besser sei. Ist es wirklich besser, anderen zu...

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 to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Bohemia (19th century), the Czech lands in Czechoslovakia (20th century), and the Czech Republic (20th-21st century) through the eyes of prominent women whose acts and deeds on behalf of their fellow ci...

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This volume presents an overview of the political and economic developments in Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the years 2000 to 2005. Unlike the Central European states that achieved EU membership in 2004 and 2007, the countries in this volume, Bulgaria being the exception, share but one characteristic: diversity. One could call the phenomenon of the region's variety and diversity the Eastern European pluralism of development. The essays ...

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 not. What is political culture? Does political culture affect democratization, and if so, what method could make such analysis feasible? Research on cultural aspects of the various exit strategies of recent and prospective EU mem...