Vítězslav Sommer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vítězslav Sommer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vítězslav |
| FAMILY NAME | Sommer |
| SIGNATURE | SOMMER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Contemporary History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5503-9151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Industrial Enterprise in Two Globalizations: The Czechoslovak Footwear Industry between Socialist Economic Exchange and Global Capitalism, 1980s–1990s
This article analyzes the impact of economic globalization on the decline of the footwear industry in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Rather than presenting the story of increasing integration into global economic structures, it focuses on one industry (footware) and one large firm (Svit Gottwaldov/Zlín) to highlight the contradictions, discontinuities and frictions between different glo…
Worlds of Management: Transregional Perspectives on Management Knowledge, 1950s–1970s. Introduction
Open Letter to "Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History"
esk historik Petr Zdek votevenm dopise adresovanm redaknm orgnm asopisu Soudob djiny / CJCH polemizuje proti zveejnn lnku skotsk historiky Rosamund Johnston „Vra tovkov ped mikrofonem: Rozhlas, politika a eskoslovensko-africk vztahy vletech 1958–1968“ vposlednm sle asopisu (. 1/2024, s. 138–165). Poukazuje na to, e autorka se ve svm textu opakovan odvolv jako na autoritu na knihu americkho historika Philipa Muehlenbecka Czechoslovakia in Africa, …
Historicizing postsocialist privatization at the juncture of the cultural and the economic
Privatization was one of the key mechanisms in the transformation from planned to market economies in the former Eastern Bloc following the collapse of communist regimes. Although this radical change in ownership structures is most often understood as belonging to the sphere of the economy, it also profoundly affected society and shared values. As historians are increasingly turning to the post-1989 period in Central and Eastern Europe, this intr…
An Unequal Alliance: Social Scientists as Experts in Socialist Czechoslovakia
SOMMER, Vtzslav. An Unequal Alliance: Social Scientists as Experts in Socialist Czechoslovakia. This article examines the role of social scientific expertise in socialist Czechoslovakia. The first section centres on the 1950s, when the new social sciences that helped build the institutions and rules of the new regime were established. The roles of social scientists as experts are analysed during the reform era of the 1960s and the so-called conso…
Husák, Jirous, and the power of historical myths
RecenznĂ Ä lĂĄnek porovnĂĄvĂĄ dvÄ rozsĂĄhlĂŠ historickĂŠ biografie, jejichĹž protagonisty jsou dvÄ velmi rozdĂlnĂŠ osobnosti – slovenskĂ ̋ komunistickĂ ̋ politik GustĂĄv HusĂĄk (1913–1991), kterĂ ̋ se pĹ es vzestupy a pĂĄdy stal v roce 1969 generĂĄlnĂm tajemnĂkem KomunistickĂŠ strany Ä eskoslovenska a v roce 1975 prezidentem Ä eskoslovenskĂŠ socialistickĂŠ republiky, a historik umÄ nĂ a hudebnĂk Ivan Martin Jirous (1944–2011), kterĂ ̋ se …
State and society in communist Czechoslovakia: Transforming everyday life from world war II to the fall of the Berlin wall
Roman Krakovský’s State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia presents a multi-faceted social and cultural history of state socialism in Czechoslovakia from its dawn in the early postwar years to
The Economics of Everyday Life in "New" Socialism
The article explores the effort by economists and economic journalists in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s to translate economic knowledge to the political language of reform communism. Czechoslovak economists aimed to cultivate public understanding of economic issues and to disseminate economic knowledge among the nonacademic public, not only through politically engaged writing in the journal Ekonomická revue, but also through research on management …
Are we still behaving as revolutionaries?”: Radovan Richta, theory of revolution and dilemmas of reform communism in Czechoslovakia
Fritz Beer, …a tys na Němce střílel, dědo?; Stanislav Budín, Jak to vlastně bylo; Marie Švermová, Vzpomínky: Praha-Litomyšl 2008, Paseka, 348 s.; Praha 2007, Torst, 618 s.; Praha 2008, Futura, 326 s
Recenze
The Economics of Everyday Life in "New" Socialism
The article explores the effort by economists and economic journalists in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s to translate economic knowledge to the political language of reform communism. Czechoslovak economists aimed to cultivate public understanding of economic issues and to disseminate economic knowledge among the nonacademic public, not only through politically engaged writing in the journal Ekonomická revue, but also through research on management …
Are we still behaving as revolutionaries?”: Radovan Richta, theory of revolution and dilemmas of reform communism in Czechoslovakia
Fritz Beer, …a tys na Němce střílel, dědo?; Stanislav Budín, Jak to vlastně bylo; Marie Švermová, Vzpomínky: Praha-Litomyšl 2008, Paseka, 348 s.; Praha 2007, Torst, 618 s.; Praha 2008, Futura, 326 s
Recenze
Are we still behaving as revolutionaries?”: Radovan Richta, theory of revolution and dilemmas of reform communism in Czechoslovakia
The Economics of Everyday Life in "New" Socialism
The article explores the effort by economists and economic journalists in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s to translate economic knowledge to the political language of reform communism. Czechoslovak economists aimed to cultivate public understanding of economic issues and to disseminate economic knowledge among the nonacademic public, not only through politically engaged writing in the journal Ekonomická revue, but also through research on management …
Husák, Jirous, and the power of historical myths
RecenznĂ Ä lĂĄnek porovnĂĄvĂĄ dvÄ rozsĂĄhlĂŠ historickĂŠ biografie, jejichĹž protagonisty jsou dvÄ velmi rozdĂlnĂŠ osobnosti – slovenskĂ ̋ komunistickĂ ̋ politik GustĂĄv HusĂĄk (1913–1991), kterĂ ̋ se pĹ es vzestupy a pĂĄdy stal v roce 1969 generĂĄlnĂm tajemnĂkem KomunistickĂŠ strany Ä eskoslovenska a v roce 1975 prezidentem Ä eskoslovenskĂŠ socialistickĂŠ republiky, a historik umÄ nĂ a hudebnĂk Ivan Martin Jirous (1944–2011), kterĂ ̋ se …
State and society in communist Czechoslovakia: Transforming everyday life from world war II to the fall of the Berlin wall
Roman Krakovský’s State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia presents a multi-faceted social and cultural history of state socialism in Czechoslovakia from its dawn in the early postwar years to
An Unequal Alliance: Social Scientists as Experts in Socialist Czechoslovakia
SOMMER, Vtzslav. An Unequal Alliance: Social Scientists as Experts in Socialist Czechoslovakia. This article examines the role of social scientific expertise in socialist Czechoslovakia. The first section centres on the 1950s, when the new social sciences that helped build the institutions and rules of the new regime were established. The roles of social scientists as experts are analysed during the reform era of the 1960s and the so-called conso…
Historicizing postsocialist privatization at the juncture of the cultural and the economic
Privatization was one of the key mechanisms in the transformation from planned to market economies in the former Eastern Bloc following the collapse of communist regimes. Although this radical change in ownership structures is most often understood as belonging to the sphere of the economy, it also profoundly affected society and shared values. As historians are increasingly turning to the post-1989 period in Central and Eastern Europe, this intr…
Open Letter to "Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History"
esk historik Petr Zdek votevenm dopise adresovanm redaknm orgnm asopisu Soudob djiny / CJCH polemizuje proti zveejnn lnku skotsk historiky Rosamund Johnston „Vra tovkov ped mikrofonem: Rozhlas, politika a eskoslovensko-africk vztahy vletech 1958–1968“ vposlednm sle asopisu (. 1/2024, s. 138–165). Poukazuje na to, e autorka se ve svm textu opakovan odvolv jako na autoritu na knihu americkho historika Philipa Muehlenbecka Czechoslovakia in Africa, …
Worlds of Management: Transregional Perspectives on Management Knowledge, 1950s–1970s. Introduction
Industrial Enterprise in Two Globalizations: The Czechoslovak Footwear Industry between Socialist Economic Exchange and Global Capitalism, 1980s–1990s
This article analyzes the impact of economic globalization on the decline of the footwear industry in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Rather than presenting the story of increasing integration into global economic structures, it focuses on one industry (footware) and one large firm (Svit Gottwaldov/Zlín) to highlight the contradictions, discontinuities and frictions between different glo…
Eastern European Communism and Reforms (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Capitalism (4 works) · Communism (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · European history and politics (3 works)