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The conference focuses on perception of heritage, the development of heritage preservation, and crucial themes and key personalities in the field of heritage in Central European countries belonging with the Eastern bloc after 1945. Date: 26–29 April 2021. Venue: On-line

In The Warsaw Pact, 1969-1985: The Pinnacle and Path to Dissolution, Matěj Bílý analyzes the internal tensions of the Soviet-led Cold War alliance as its careened toward its end. Rooted in detailed research in Czech, Polish, and German archives, this book presents much previously unknown information about the alliance’s mechanisms as it served as one of the Kremlin’s increasingly ineffective tools for managing the Eastern Bloc.

The conference focuses on both national and international context of the fall and transformation of the communist regime. Self-perception of the then student generation, transformative journey of Czech media, changes in Czech society etc. will be topics of the conference’s lectures and discussions. Date: 6–8 November 2019. Venue: Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. 

The conference will focus on violent acts occurring at the end of World War II in the context of nationalism as reshaped by previous war experiences. Date: 16 – 17 May 2019. Venue: Karolinum of Charles University in Prague. Programme of the conference.

Three of well-known thinkers and movers of the late 1960s – Ágnes Heller, Pavel Litvinov and Mustafa Dzhemilev – will take part in a discussion at the Václav Havel Library on 21 August 2018, starting at 7 p.m. The debate will focus on a comparison of societal changes in 1968 and 2018, particularly in Hungary, the US and Ukraine. Interpretation into English and Russian provided.

Organized by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Prague, the Czech-German Lawyers’ Association, the Václav Havel Library and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the conference is held on 18 May 2018 at the Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Praha 1. It is necessary to register in advance at tschechien@hss.de. Simultaneous interpretation into Czech and German provided.

The exhibit was comprised from a collection of over 20 interviews with citizens of the Warsaw Pact countries who participated in protests against the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Their testimonies, together with documents collected from Soviet, Polish, Hungarian, German, Bulgarian, and Czech secret service and personal archives are the basis of the exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the invasion. You can visit the exhibition at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States, Washington, D.C. between 4 April and 31 May 2018.

Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes jointly with the Institute for the Study of Strategic Regions at Charles University in Prague organized a workshop Labour Migration between East and West. Guest Workers in Europe from the 1960s to the 1980s.  The workshop was held on 27–28 February 2018 in Prague. Find the programme with abstracts of the presented papers here.

Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in cooperation with the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague and the Parliamentary Library invited Yury Fedorov, a Russian foreign and security policy expert, to speak about his book Russia between Fascism and Disintegration. The lecture was held on 1 February 2018 in Prague.

Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes jointly with the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic organized an international conference on the history of the Soviet Cheka. The event was held on 2–3 November 2017 in Prague. Find the conference programme here.