Miloslav Rechcigl 
Political, international, social and economic aspects [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter — Preface — Table of Contents — A. CZECHOSLOVAKIA THROUGH THE SECOND WORLD WAR — 1. Rise and Fall of the First Czechoslovak Republic: Historical Aspects — The Role of President Wilson in the Foundation of Czechoslovakia — Formative Years of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia. The Statesmanship of Antonin Švehla — The Entry of German Parties into the Czechoslovak Government — The Second Czechoslovak Republic, September 1938-March 1939: A Study in Political Change — The Establishment of Slovak Autonomy in 1938 — Personal Recollection of a Few Episodes in Czecho-Slovak Relations — Some Aspects of Carpatho-Ukrainian History in Post-Munich Czechoslovakia — 2. The First Czechoslovak Republic: Social and Economic Aspects — The Roots of Czechoslovak Democracy — Political Parties in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 — The Normological and Political Bases of the Legal Order of the First Czechoslovak Republic — Czechoslovakia and International Organization — Economic and Financial Policy of Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 — Agriculture in the First Republic of Czechoslovakia — The Progress of Czechoslovakia’s Industrialization and its Effect upon National Unity — Social Progress in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 — 3. Czechoslovakia and the Second World War — The Role of Czechoslovakia in the Origins of World War II — Organization in the United States of the Struggle for Czechoslovakia’s Independence, 1938 to 1941 — The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: A Re-evaluation — The Slovak Uprising of 1944 — The Years of German Occupation, 1939-1945: The First Totalitarian Attack on the Czech Economy — B. CONTEMPORARY CZECHOSLOVAKIA — 1. Political Aspects — The Political Role of the Coup of February 1948 in the History of Socialist Revolutions — Action Committees: A Case Study of the Application and the Use of Action Committees in the Czechoslovak Nationalist Socialist Party — The Power Structure of Today’s Czechoslovakia — Czechoslovakia’s Relations with Underdeveloped Countries — Czechoslovakia and the World Communist System — Czechoslovakia Twenty Years After — Futures of Czechoslovakia: Some Alternatives – Steps toward an Analytical Model — 2. Social and Economic Aspects — Economic Growth of Czechoslovakia Since World War II — Short- and Long-Term Aspects of Changes in Czechoslovak Agriculture since the Second World War — The New Economic System in Czechoslovakia — The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance: Its First Fifteen Years — Czechoslovak-Polish Cooperation in Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Energy: Foundation and Results — Czechoslovak Postwar Housing: A Case Study of Communist Czechoslovakia Housing Production as Compared to the United States — Public Welfare in Today’s Czechoslovakia — Class Struggle and Civil Law: The Case of Czechoslovakia — Property Rights of Aliens under the Legal Order of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic — 3. Cultural Aspects — Contemporary Czechoslovak Philosophy — The Age of John Hus in Recent Czechoslovak Historical Literature (1948-1961) — Palacký: A Marxist Portrait — The Literature of De-Stalinization — Art in Communist Czechoslovakia — Total Planning of Science on the National and International Levels — The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences — C. CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE WORLD — 1. Czechoslovakia and its Neighbors: Nationalism versus Federalism — Central Eastern Europe at the Mid-Century — Czechoslovakia and Austria — Czechoslovakia and Hungary — Attempts at Czechoslovak-Polish Cooperation: Achievements and Failures — Czechoslovakia and Rumania: A Brief Historical Retrospect — Czechoslovak-Yugoslav Relations, 1933-1938 — Natonalism versus Federalism in Central and Southeast Europe — Czechoslovakia’s Federalist Heritage: A Historical Perspective — 2. Czechoslovakia and Great Powers — Czechoslovak Independence and the Great Powers: Retrospect and Prospect — Czechoslovakia and Germany, 1933-1945 — Great-Britain and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1948: