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of České země v evropských dějinách, (Prague and Litomyšl, 2006), a textbook
covering the period 1918–2004.
Vlastimil Hála (1951) is a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Philosophy at the
Academy of Sciences, Prague. His main academic interest is ethics in the history
of philosophy. He is the author of Impulsy Kantovy etiky (Prague, 1994) and many
articles on the history of philosophy and recent philosophers (including Bolzano,
Brentano, Hösle, and Habermas).
Michal Kopeček (1974) is a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary
History, Prague. His chief research interests are the history of political and social
thought in twentieth-century central Europe, from a comparative perspective, and
the history and theory of historiography. With Zdeněk Karník he is the co-editor of
the five-volume Bolševismus, komunismus a radikální socialismus v Československu
(Prague, 2003–05). His most recent publication is Hledání ztraceného smyslu
revoluce: Zrod a počátky marxistického revizionismu ve střední Evropě 1953–1960
(Prague, 2009).
Jan Křen (1930) is a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University,
Prague, and also lectures at universities in Austria and Germany. His chief area
of academic interest is the modern history of central Europe and Czech-German
relations. Among his publications on the topic are Konfliktní společenství: Češi
a Němci 1780–1918 (Prague, 1991, and Munich, 1996) and a volume of essays
called Historické proměny češství (Prague, 1992). His most recent publication is Dvě
století střední Evropy (Prague, 2005).
Jiří Křesťan (1957), an archivist and historian, is in charge of Department VI of the
National Archives, Prague. His chief research interest is the history of Communism and
Socialism in the Bohemian Lands, particularly the life and work of Zdeněk Nejedlý,
about whom he published Pojetí české otázky v díle Zdeňka Nejedlého (Prague, 1996).
Jan Michl (1975) is employed at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Régimes,
Prague, doing research on the history of Communist military intelligence and
counter-intelligence. His area of specialization is twentieth-century Czechoslovak
military and political history, particularly the members of all three Czechoslovak
resistance groups abroad. He is the author of the two-volume monograph Cizinci
v RAF (Prague, 2006 and 2008) and Legionáři a Československo (Prague, 2009).
Pavel Seifter (1938) is an historian and diplomat, a Charter 77 signatory, and a coeditor
of the samizdat Historické studie. In the early 1990s he was Deputy Director
of the Institute of Contemporary History, later Deputy Director of the Institute of
International Relations, Prague, and head of the Foreign Relations Department of
the Office of the President of the Republic. From 1997 to 2003 he was the Czech
Ambassador to the Court of Saint James’s.