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Zápas dvou kultur v totalitním systému 251ContributorsVladimír Březina (1974) is a researcher at the Brno-branch of the Institute ofContemporary History, the Academy of Sciences. The focus of his research isCzechoslovak history after 1945, in particular collectivization.Jaroslav Bouček (1952) is in charge of the administrative archive of the CzechMinistry of Health. His main research interests are contemporary history and thehistory of historiography, particularly the historian Jan Slavík. His publicationsinclude Jan Slavík: Příběh zakázaného historika (Prague, 2002) and 27. 6. 1950:Poprava Záviše Kalandry. Česká kulturní avantgarda a KSČ (Prague, 2006).Jana Čechurová (1969) is a docent at the Institute of Czech History, CharlesUniversity, Prague. Her chief research interest is Czech history in the first half of thetwentieth century. Her publications include Alois Rašín: Dramatický život českéhopolitika (Prague, 1997) and Čeští svobodní zednáři ve XX. století (Prague, 2002).Peter Heumos (1938) attended the universities of Göttingen, Prague, and Bochum.He worked for years in the Collegium Carolinum, Munich, before retiring in 2003.His main areas of research have long been social movements in the Bohemian Landsfrom the nineteenth century onwards, the political systems of Czechoslovakia,Czechoslovak émigrés during the Second World War, and the history of societyin Communist Czechoslovakia, and, most recently, the working class from theLiberation to the “Prague Spring.” His publications include Die Emigration ausder Tschechoslowakei nach Westeuropa und dem Nahen Osten 1938–1945 (Munich,1989) and “Vyhrňme si rukávy, než se kola zastaví!” Dělníci a státní socialismusv Československu 1945–1968 (Prague, 2006).Karel Hrubý (1923) was, from 1983 to 1991, Editor-in-Chief of Proměny, the culturaland political quarterly of the Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Science, published inNew York. His chief scholarly interest is the sociology of change in political systems,both early ones (during the Hussite period) and recent. With Milíč Čapek he coauthoredT. G. Masaryk in Perspective: Comments and Criticism (Ann Arbor, 1981).