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Zápas dvou kultur Summaries v totalitním systému 249Deutschland und Tschechien seit 1871. Essen: Klartext, 2005, 309 pp. (Veröffentlichungenzur Kultur und Geschichte im östlichen Europa, vol. 27)This is a review of an edited volume of papers from a German-Czech conferenceheld in Düsseldorf, May 2003. According to the reviewer it usefully exploresvarious aspects of the limits of press and academic freedom in Germany and theBohemian Lands from 1871 onwards. The first two sections of the volume containarticles concerned with various forms of censorship, propaganda, and their effects,whereas the last section has articles about sensationalism and the construction ofreality, for example, the presentation of medicine in the mass media.Periodicals and ArchivesThe Wartime and Post-war Years Consideredin Polish History Periodicals, 2005–06Jaroslav VaculíkThis contribution to a regular section of Soudobé dějiny reports on interestingarticles on contemporary history published in Polish history journals over the lasttwo years. It pays most attention to Dzieje Najnowsze, a key quarterly publishedjointly by the History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the PułtuskAcademy of the Humanities. It also discusses articles in Przegląd Historyczny,a quarterly from Poznań, Sobótka, a quarterly from Silesia, Wiadomości Historyczne,a bimonthly about teaching methods, and Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej,a monthly.Historical CuriositiesSlavík on the End of the Český časopis historickýand on Nejedlý’s History of the Czech NationJaroslav BoučekAs editor, Bouček presents two manuscripts by the historian Jan Slavík (1885–1978) from the period after the Communist takeover of February 1948, when Slavíkwas not permitted to publish. Among other things, Slavík was a leading expert onRussian history. In the first Czechoslovak Republic he was involved in debatesabout the meaning of Czech history and the methodological starting points ofhistoriography. After the Communist takeover, however, he was practically silencedfor ever. The first text published here is a parody in verse, “Zpěv o pádu Čečehoně”(Song of the Fall of Čečehoň, 1950), stylized in the genre of a chivalric epic. In it,