Missed Opportunities? NATO’s Post-Cold War Enlargement and the Gradual Decline in Relations between Washington and Moscow [book review]

Matěj Bílý

Soudobé dějiny/CJCH. X:X  

“From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe – and Back” [book review]

Daniela Spenser

Soudobé dějiny/CJCH. X:X  

Study of Post-Socialism and the New Left in Central and Eastern Europe [book review]

Vítězslav Sommer

Soudobé dějiny/CJCH. X:X  

From “Scourge of the Countryside” to “Social Parasites” and “Job-Hoppers” / “Gypsies” in Czechoslovak Criminology from the First Republic to Early Normalization

Pavel Baloun

Soudobé dějiny/CJCH. X:X  

This text aims to analyse representations of “Gypsies” in Czechoslovak criminology in the period from 1945 to the onset of normalization. My focus is also on the issue of long-term continuities and discontinuities in the criminological discourse of the first half of the twentieth century. In the period of interwar Czechoslovakia, police expertise played a crucial role in criminalizing and marginalizing Roma and Sinti in Czechoslovak society, when it served to register, control and carry out surveillance of “wandering Gypsies”, and also greatly informed public debate on the issue. In the period of Stalinism, with the abolition...