Otevřený dopis redakčním orgánům časopisu "Soudobé dějiny / CJCH"
Open Letter to the Editors of "Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History"

Summary/Abstract: In an open letter to the editors of "Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History", the Czech historian Petr Zídek raises objections to the publication of Scottish historian Rosamund Johnston’s article “Věra Štovíčková před mikrofonem: Rozhlas, politika a československo-africké vztahy v letech 1958–1968” [Věra Štovíčková at the Microphone: Radio, Politics and Czechoslovak-African Relations in 1958–1968] in the latest issue of the journal (No. 1/2024, pp. 138–165). He points out that in her text Johnston repeatedly refers to the book "Czechoslovakia in Africa, 1945–1968" (New York – London, Palgrave Macmillan 2016) by the American historian Philip Muehlenbeck as an authority. In this work, Muehlenbeck extensively, word for word and without acknowledgement adopted and used sources from Czech archives, aspreviously published and quoted by Petr Zídek himself and in publications coauthored with another Czech historian, Karel Sieber, in his books on Czechoslovak-African relations. In this context, Zídek raises the question of a possible violation of the principles of publishing ethics and the tolerance of the journal’s editors towards the plagiarism committed by Philip Muehlenbeck.

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