Publisher: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů

Behind the Iron Curtain (1)

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2009

This magazine is the English version of selected articles published in the pages of the review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History), which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.This magazine is the English version of selected articles published in the pages of the review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) ISSN 1802-8241, which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. The original version of the journal Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) is the part of CEEOL also.

Behind the Iron Curtain (2)

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2012

This magazine is the English version of selected articles published in the pages of the review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History), which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.This magazine is the English version of selected articles published in the pages of the review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) ISSN 1802-8241, which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. The original version of the journal Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) is the part of CEEOL also.

Behind the Iron Curtain (3)

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2015

This magazine is the English version of selected articles published in the pages of the review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) ISSN 1802-8241, which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.This magazine is the English version of selected articles published in the pages of the review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) ISSN 1802-8241, which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. The original version of the journal Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) is the part of CEEOL also.

Behind the Iron Curtain (4)

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2016

This magazine is the English version of selected articles published in the pages of the review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) ISSN 1802-8241, which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.This magazine is the English version of selected articles published in the pages of the review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) ISSN 1802-8241, which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. The original version of the journal Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History) is the part of CEEOL also.

Crimes of the Communist Regimes - Proceedings of an international Conference held in Prague, 24–26 February 2010

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2011

The conference was hosted by Jiří Liška, Vice-chairman of the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic and the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and organized by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes together with partner institutions from the working group on the Platform of European Memory and Conscience

NKVD/KGB Activities and its Cooperation with other Secret Services in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-1989, II.

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2009

The activity of Soviet security units, particularly State Security known throughout the world under the acronym of KGB, remains one of the most important subjects for 20th century research in Central and Eastern Europe. The functioning and operation of this apparatus, which surpassed the activities of the police in countries with democratic systems several fold, had a significant and direct influence on the shape of the totalitarian framework; the actions of party members of the Communist nomenclature; and the form, methods and extent of the repression of “class enemies” and, in the final instance, upon innocent representatives of various sociopolitical groups.

Osud odbojové organizace Černý Lev 777 - Příspěvek k historii ozbrojeného odporu proti komunistickéme reïmu v Československu

Author(s): Tomáš Bursík / Language(s): Czech / Publication Year: 2007

This study describes the history of Černý lev 777 (“Black Lion 777”), one of the anti-Communist resistance groups in the former Czechoslovakia. The study is based on primary sources including the memories of the sister of one of the executed members of Černý lev 777, and also uses resources containing some characteristics of the more general relationships that relate to the topic of the third resistance in Czechoslovakia. Černý lev 777 proves that there were, and are, people who were not content to remain merely unresponsive victims of the Communist atrocities and decided to act. This meant taking a weapon and responding with adequate steps to combat the Communist totalitarian regime. From this viewpoint, the activities of Černý lev 777 in the broader Czechoslovak context may appear equal to those of, for instance, the Mašín brethren and others. Jiří Řezáč, Jaroslav Sirotek and Bohumil Šíma, the key representatives of Černý lev 777 and their companions responded to the Communist doctrine of class struggle in the same manner and decided to put up an active resistance. Stockpiling weapons, intimidating Communist Party officials, fighting to prevent the collectivisation of village farmsteads and attempting to establish links with foreign intelligence agents were some of the activities Černý lev 777 was involved in. Its greatest acts were the bomb blasts which destroyed the district committee offices of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Sedlčany in July 1949 and in Milevsko in May 1950. It was not until 5 years after the group’s first actions that the members were arrested, at the beginning of July 1954. Besides the members of the anti-Communist organisation, many other people, such as relatives, friends and people who had nothing in common with Černý lev 777, were arrested over a few weeks. Much is already known about the investigation methods of State Security Police (StB) in the first half of the 1950’s: long overnight interrogations, physical and mental stress, falsification of protocols, use of prison informers in the cells of detainees, etc. The three court hearings before the regional court in České Budějovice were merely a formality. They resulted in three death penalties (Jiří Řezáč, Jaroslav Sirotek and Bohumil Šíma) and many other heavy sentences. Many people were arrested for committing crimes which the court never proved. These processes were also used by the Communist propaganda to further intimidate those who refused to approve the so called “people’s democratic establishment”. Those sentenced in the trial of Jiří Řezáč and co. and in the subsequent trials of “František Nygrýn and Co.” and “Vladimír Hřebejk and Co.” passed through many Czechoslovak prison facilities in 1950’s and 1960’s. It was not only themselves but also their families that suffered. They were not fully rehabilitated until the 1990’s.

Paměť a dějiny

Frequency: 4 issues / Country: Czech Republic

The main magazine of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes is the Czech-language review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History), which is issued quarterly and targets both scholarly and lay audiences.

Securitas imperii

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Czech Republic

Securitas Imperii is the peer-reviewed periodical of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, concerned primarily with the 1938-1989 period (both in Czechoslovakia and abroad). The heart of the magazine consists of original historical papers as well as documentary histories, reviews, summaries and reports. Securitas Imperii is issued twice annually, with one of the issues being largely monothematic.

Securitas Imperii accepts theoretical articles and work with a politological focus (totalitarianism, authoritarianism, ideology and applications thereof in concrete historical circumstances). The magazine is not oriented exclusively towards component aspects (persecution, the Holocaust), but attempts to address the stipulated period as a whole. The Editorial Board thus welcomes contributions concerning cultural, religious, economic or social history, as long as they thematically or methodologically relate to issues relevant to totalitarian regimes. The Editorial Board further encourages the submission of original, quality contributions on related subject matter extending beyond the defined time period, including Czech fascism, Stalinism, the Ukrainian Hladomor, and so on. Contributions may be submitted in the English language.

Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů - Archiv bezpečnostních složek

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English,Czech / Publication Year: 2009

This prospect is a guide to the activities of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. In the first part has been described the purpose of the establishing of the Institute for the Study of totalitarian regimes. Large space is dedicated to the introduction of the books and journals published in the Institute. The second part describes the function of the Security Services Archive.