Implementation: 2008–2018 Head of project: Petr Anev Other members of the project team: Milan Bárta, Jan Kalous, Pavel Kreisinger, Jaroslav Rokoský, Jiří Urban, Rudolf Vévoda, Roman Vondra, Matěj Bílý Description of project: Using uniform criteria, the biographical dictionary of top…
Implementation: 2017–2019 Head of project: Martin Valenta Description of project: The comparison of social movements of the year 1968 in Czechoslovakia and in Western Europe, with the main emphasis on West Germany, will focus on three periods. The first period…
Implementation: 2017–2018 Head of project: Petr Placák Description of project: The attempt at a single interpretation of history is one of the basic features of totalitarian, authoritative and various nationalist regimes, including also the period of normalization. The project outlines…
Implementation: 2014–2018 Head of project: Petr Mallota Other members of the project team: Martin Jindra Description of project: Using archival research, the project documents the existence of “anti-state” flyers and similar illegal prints that were produced in Czechoslovakia as an…
Implementation: 2015–2018 Head of project: Libor Svoboda Other members of the project team: Martin Tichý, Juraj Kalina Description of project: The project aims to capture the events along the whole border of former Czechoslovakia with Austria and Germany. It will focus…
Implementation: 2015–2018 Head of project: Jan Cholínský Other members of the project team: František Stárek Description of project: The project focuses on the research of political and journalistic activities of Czech émigrés and exile groups in the years 1948–1968. Attention…
Implementation: 2014–2018 Head of project: Jaroslav Pažout Other members of the project team: Tomáš Bursík (ABS), Alena Šimánková, Adam Zítek (both at the National Archives) Description of project: The project will outline the personnel composition, organization and functioning of the…
Implementation: 2017–2019 Head of project: Jaromír Mrňka Description of project: The project reconstructs the phenomenon of denunciation in modern Czech society during the period of Nazi and Stalinist dictatorships. It focuses on the analysis of mechanisms in which denunciation represented…
Implementation: 2017–2018 Head of project: Pavla Plachá Description of project: This is a pilot project that aims to gradually document all executed Czechoslovak citizens. The project is jointly implemented by ÚSTR and Gedenkstätte Münchner Platz Dresden. Nearly two-thirds of the…
Implementation: 2008–2018 Head of project: Petr Mallota Other members of the project team: Markéta Doležalová Description of project: The aim of the project is to map the lives of people executed for political reasons in Czechoslovakia in the years 1948–1989.…
Implementation: 2018–2020 Head of project: Adam Hradilek Other members of the project team: Jan Dvořák, Štěpán Černoušek Description of project: The project of documentation of political repressions in the Soviet Union builds on the previous project of the Institute called…
Implementation: 2017–2019 Head of project: Stanislav Kokoška Description: The aim of the project is to extend the range of sources related to the history of the home resistance organization Petition Committee We Will Remain Faithful (PVVZ). The research examines the…
Implementation: 2016–2018 Head of project: Petr Kopal Other members of the project team: Jaroslav Pinkas Description of project: The project aims to study film propaganda as one of the aspects of modern totalitarianism. The project centres on the following questions:…
Implementation: 2016–2018 Head of project: Alfons Adam Description of project: The aim of the project is to prepare an overview of Nazi forced labour at the territory of today’s Czech Republic, both in the border lands annexed by the Third…
Implementation: 2018–2020 Head of project: Vojtěch Ripka Other members of the project team: Jaroslav Najbert, Kamil Činátl, Jaroslav Pinkas, Čeněk Pýcha, Karina Hoření, Václav Sixta, Michaela Veselá Description of project: The project centres on the enhancement of historical literacy in…
Implementation: 2015–2018 Head of project: Milan Bárta and Jan Kalous Other members of the project team: Libor Svoboda, Jerguš Sivoš (ÚPN) Description of project: The project is defined by the period between early 1945 and September 1953 and has important contextual…
Implementation: 2017–2021 Head of project: Tomáš Vilímek Other members of the project team: Adam Havlík, Tomáš Malínek, Petr Dvořáček Description of project: The project focuses on the normalization period of the years 1969–1989. With federalization of Czechoslovakia in 1969, new…
Implementation: 2015–2018 Head of project: Petr Blažek Description of project: The main focus of the project is a historical investigation of cases of self-immolation in the Soviet Bloc, which appeared at the end of the 1960s in response to the…
Implementation: 2017–2018 Head of project: Čeněk Pýcha Other members of the project team: Jakub Jareš, Václav Sixta Description of project: The project aims to link activities of museums with contemporary historical science. It will look at museum exhibitions from the…
Implementation: 2017–2020 Head of project: Michal Sklenář Description of project: The project focuses on new sacral buildings of the Roman Catholic Church in the Czech lands. It highlights concrete social practice in places where new Catholic chapels and churches were…
Implementation: 2015–2018 Head of project: Petr Placák Description of project: The lay Catholic organization Opus Bonum (OB) was established by Czechoslovak émigrés in 1972 in the then West Germany in order to preserve and further develop Czech and Slovak Christian…
Implementation: 2009–2018 Head of project: Markéta Doležalová Other members of the project team: Stanislava Vodičková, Martin Jindra Description of project: The project focuses on the documentation of the Christian clergy during Nazism and Communism. The first part of the project…
Implementation: 2016–2018 Head of project: Muriel Blaive Other members of the project team: Nicolas Masłowski Description of project: The project analyzes how the relations between societies and Communist regimes in Central Europe were presented in the past and how they…
Implementation: 2018–2019 Head of project: Jan Dvořák Other members of the project team: Adam Hradilek, Štěpán Černoušek Description of project: The project will focus on documenting witness testimonies and the collection of archival documents from Czech and foreign archives linked…
Implementation: 2017–2019 Head of project: Jiří Urban Description of project: The project examines the role of State Tractor Stations (STS), Czechoslovak State Farms (ČSSS) and economic cooperatives in the forced collectivisation of the countryside. The research will focus on specific…
Implementation: 2015–2018 Head of project: Marián Lóži Other members of the project team: Matěj Bílý, Jakub Šlouf Description of project: The project analyzes the building and the initial phase of the stabilization of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in…
Implementation: 2013–2018 Head of project: Petr Anev Description of project: The project will describe, in broader political context, the circumstances of the demise of the Agrarian Party, which is one of the keys for the understanding of the fall of…
Implementation: 2015–2018 Head of project: Jaroslav Rokoský Description of project: The project draws on archival research and maps the escape of resistance members from the most feared prison in the ČSR, which took place on 2 January 1952. It will…
Implementation: 2018–2019 Head of project: Petr Blažek Description of project: The project focuses on historical research into the history of the Society for a Merrier Present – one of the opposition initiatives in Czechoslovakia in the late 1980s. It will…
Implementation: 2014–2018 Head of project: Tomáš Vilímek Other members of the project team: Petr Dvořáček Description of project: The project will take a closer look at the cooperation between Czechoslovak and East German political police in the years 1969–1989. The…
Implementation: 2017–2019 Head of project: David Svoboda Other members of the project team: Jaromír Kalus, Tomáš Řepa Description of project: The project explores Ukrainian anti-Soviet resistance during World War II and during the Cold War. It focuses on the radical…
Implementation: 2017–2019 Head of project: Matěj Bílý Description of project: The analysis of the last years of the existence of the Warsaw Pact in the time of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev…
Implementation: 2017–2019 Head of project: Klára Pinerová Other members of the project team: Michal Louč, Kristýna Bušková Description of project: The project aims to research Czechoslovak prison system in the years 1965–1992, viewed from the perspective of adaptation mechanisms, both…
Implementation: 2012–2018 Head of project: Ladislav Kudrna Other members of the project team: František Stárek, Martin Valenta Description of project: The project focuses on basic research of regional underground activities in Czechoslovakia in the normalization period. The main outcomes will…
Implementation: 2017–2019 Head of project: Ondřej Vojtěchovský Description of project: The project maps and analyzes the phenomenon of the residence of Yugoslav citizens and the evolution of the permanently settled Yugoslav community in Czechoslovakia during the period of so-called normalization.…
