Soudobé dějiny / CJCH - Ahead of Print
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 
SAROTTE, Mary Elise: Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate. New Heaven – London, Yale University Press 2021, 550 pages, ISBN 978-0-300-25993-3.
“From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe – and Back” [book review]
Daniela Spenser
Soudobé dějiny/CJCH. X:X
GARTON ASH, Timothy: Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. New Haven – London, Yale University Press 2023, 363 pages, ISBN 978-0-300-25707-6.
Study of Post-Socialism and the New Left in Central and Eastern Europe [book review]
Vítězslav Sommer
Soudobé dějiny/CJCH. X:X
GAGYI, Agnes SLAČÁLEK, Ondřej (eds.): The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’: New Left Perspectives from the Region. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 270 pages, ISBN 978-3-030-78914-5.
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...