The struggle for the soul of the nation : Czech culture and the rise of communism /
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- World War Two and the East European revolution
- Intellectuals in the Czech environment
- Four groups of postwar Czech intellectuals
- The communist aim : the creation of a new Czechoslovakia
- The battle over the recent past I : the experiences of Munich and the World War II
- The battle over the recent past II : the First Republic and Tomás G. Masaryk
- The shift in sensibilities and generations
- The reorientation of national identity : Czechs between East and West
- Socialism and communist intellectuals : the "Czechoslovak road to socialism"
- Socialism and democratic socialist intellectuals : the "new socialist ethos"
- Socialism and Roman Catholic intellectuals : the "fateful struggle between spirit and matter"
- Socialism and Protestant intellectuals : the Kingdom of God on earth?
- The end of Czechoslovak democracy and the rise of communism in Eastern Europe.