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Vít Smetana (1973) is a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary
History, Prague. His research interests include the history of international politics
and diplomacy during the Second World War and the first phase of the Cold War,
particularly the role of Great Britain, and also British-Czechoslovak relations in
this period. He is the author of In the Shadow of Munich: British Policy towards
Czechoslovakia from the Endorsement to the Renunciation of the Munich Agreement
(1938–1942) (Prague, 2008).
Jiří Suk (1966) is a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary History,
Prague. He is chiefly concerned with select questions of the developments in
Czechoslovakia from the late 1960s onwards, especially changes in the system of
power from 1989 to 1993. Among his publications is the monograph Labyrintem
revoluce: Aktéři, zápletky a křižovatky jedné politické krize (od listopadu 1989 do
června 1990) (Prague, 2003 and 2009).
Prokop Tomek (1965) was formerly head of a group of documentarists at the Office
for the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism, Prague.
He is currently head of the Documentation Department of the Security Services
Archive, Prague. He is concerned primarily with the work of various departments
of the secret police of Communist Czechoslovakia. Amongst his publications are
Československý uran 1945–1989 (Prague, 1999), Dvě studie o československém
vězeňství 1948–1989 (Prague, 2000), Objekt ALFA: Československé bezpečnostní
složky proti Rádiu Svobodná Evropa (Prague, 2006), and Život a doba ministra
Rudolfa Baráka (Prague, 2009).
Jaroslav Vaculík (1947) is a docent at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University,
Brno, where he lectures on world history from the seventeenth to the twentieth
century. His chief research interest is Czech minorities abroad, about which he
has published widely, including the three-volume Dějiny volyňských Čechů (Prague,
1997, 1998, and 2001), Češi v cizině 1850–1938 (Brno, 2007), and České menšiny
v Evropě a ve světě (Prague, 2009).
Martin Valenta (1980) is a post-graduate in the Department of German and
Austrian Studies of the Institute of International Studies, the Faculty of Social
Sciences, Charles University, Prague. His chief research interests are modern
and contemporary German history. Among his publications is Bauhaus: Reformní
pedagogika v kontextu společenského vývoje konce 19. a počátku 20. století (Prague,
2007).
Tomáš Zahradníček (1971) was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of Dějiny a současnost.
He is now employed in the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, where his
chief research interests are neglected topics in modern and contemporary history.
Among his publications is Jak vyhrát cizí válku: Češi, Poláci a Ukrajinci 1914–1918
(Prague, 2000).