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: