Vít Smetana
Biographic Data
| ID | 6745418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vít Smetana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vít |
| FAMILY NAME | Smetana |
| SIGNATURE | SMETANA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Contemporary History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1446-7635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unbalanced Coordination
In December 1943, Czechoslovakia became the first country in Central and Eastern Europe to conclude a treaty of alliance and postwar cooperation with the Soviet Union. The signature of this treaty was a voluntary decision taken by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London despite considerable British reservations. The main aim was to secure Czechoslovakia from a repeat of what happened in 1938 with the Nazi German threat and the willingness …
Stalin and the Fate of Europe after 1945
Norman M. Naimark, Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 361 pp. $29.95.Editor's Introduction: Norman Naimark has published a great deal about the fate of Eastern Europe as it came under Soviet domination during the first few years after World War II. His latest book, Stalin and the Fate of Europe, is a reassessment of Joseph Stalin's policies toward seven European coun…
The Cold War and East-Central Europe,1945–1989
Eight experts on the history of East-Central Europe offer commentaries about the book Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1990, edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana. The commentators discuss the main contributions of the book and highlight the important questions it raises as well as the issues requiring further research
George F. Kennan and the Division of Europe
Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the …
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George F. Kennan and the Division of Europe
Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the …
The Cold War and East-Central Europe,1945–1989
Eight experts on the history of East-Central Europe offer commentaries about the book Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1990, edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana. The commentators discuss the main contributions of the book and highlight the important questions it raises as well as the issues requiring further research
Stalin and the Fate of Europe after 1945
Norman M. Naimark, Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 361 pp. $29.95.Editor's Introduction: Norman Naimark has published a great deal about the fate of Eastern Europe as it came under Soviet domination during the first few years after World War II. His latest book, Stalin and the Fate of Europe, is a reassessment of Joseph Stalin's policies toward seven European coun…
Unbalanced Coordination
In December 1943, Czechoslovakia became the first country in Central and Eastern Europe to conclude a treaty of alliance and postwar cooperation with the Soviet Union. The signature of this treaty was a voluntary decision taken by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London despite considerable British reservations. The main aim was to secure Czechoslovakia from a repeat of what happened in 1938 with the Nazi German threat and the willingness …
Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Cold war (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)