TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. 2 NUMBER 1
- I. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
- II. 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY HISTORY
- Mirror of Life under Communism: Jan Patočka’s Interpretation of Czech History by Zdeněk V. David 9 At Home among Strangers: The Extraordinary Year 1950 in the Life of an Ordinary American Family in Communist Czechoslovakia by Kathleen Geaney. 25 Trusting Nothing except Power, Gustáv Husák (1913-1991): An Attempt at a Political Psychological Profile by Josette Baer 43 Male Suicides in Europe and Political Systems by Vládo Simko and Emil Ginter. 53
- III. TRANSATLANTIC TIES
- Czech Printed Immigrant Press in the United States of America by Alena Jaklová 63 A Case-Study regarding the Anthology of Czech Translations of Contemporary American Poetry Child on Top ofa Greenhouse by Josef Jařáb 71 How the Light got in (and out): Some Thoughts on the Great Czech Cold-War Cultural Renaissance and its Reception in the West by Paul Wilson 77 Václav Havel, His Life and his Legacy in the United States by Martin Palouš 83
- IV. COMENIUS AND THE VISUAL ARTS
- John Amos Comenius in Czech and Global Visual Art by Markéta Pánková 95 The Opening of the Permanent Exposition “The Cabinet of Coins and Medals of Zdeněk Kolářský” at the Chateau Pardubice in 2015 by Petr Vorel.
- V. BOOK REVIEWS
- Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest by Jaroslav Pánek 127 Markéta Devátá, Marxismus jako projekt nové společnosti [Marxism as a Pro- ject of the New Society] by Francis D. Raška 133 Josette Baer, A Life Dedicated to the Republic: Vávro Šrobáťs Slovák Czechoslovakism by Zdeněk V. David 135 Eva Semotanová and Jiří Cajthaml, et al, Akademický atlas českých dějin [Academie Atlas of Czech History] by Francis D. Raška 137