Ninety Years of the Fruitful Life of Lenka Kalinová (1924–2014)
Ninety Years of the Fruitful Life of Lenka Kalinová (1924–2014)

Summary/Abstract: The author sums up the life and career of Lenka Kalinová (1924–2014), who was for a long time the leading authority on the social history of Czechoslovakia, particularly of the years after the Second World War. In the 1960's, she established and led a team of scholars to analyse the social structure of Czechoslovakia as it had developed from 1918 onward. In 1970, she lost her job, but in the following years worked with specialized institutions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary,and eventually also published intensively in both countries. New opportunities opened up for her in the early 1990's, when she began to work closely with the Institute of Contemporary History, part of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In consequence of her years of work in the field of theory of social and economic history,she published two syntheses in which she made good use of a great deal of facts in order to identify and explain basic trends in Czech society and politics from 1945 to 1993.

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