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The Institute of Contemporary History launched its publishing career at its foundation in cooperation with the Czechoslovak documentation centre at Scheinfeld. The first two items to roll off the printing presses were “The Charter of 77” (Charta 77) and “The Democratic Revolution” (Demokratická revoluce), both of which had been prepared by members of the documentation centre still in exile at Scheinfeld. These were followed by a joint publication on the fate of Jews in the Protectorate. Then, in 1992, the first fruits of research projects were ready to be issued in book form and the enterprise has continued ever since. In some cases results have been published at the Institute’s own expense, and in others with the aid of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation or grants from different sources.
With most publications, the Editorial and distribution section manages all stages of production from initial transcription of manuscripts to sub-editing to the final bookbinding, and, as far as the Institute’s own productions are concerned, these are published independently of the scientific and academic press. The book series “Notebooks of the Institute of Contemporary History” (Sešity USD; 41 volumes until the present), for instance, offers in a prescribed form partial studies and thematic collections of documents that have accrued from new archival research and is geared mainly towards the domestic academic market and centres for Czech Studies abroad. It is only larger monographs and source editions that have been published in cooperation with commercial publishing houses (Doplněk, Torst, Maxdorf, Prius, Dokořán) and these are aimed at the wider public.
Milena Janišová
