'Both books are serious and lucid works of scholarship. Both do an exemplary job of embedding a Czechoslovak case in larger literatures and contexts … Gerlach and Donert put Czechoslovakia on the map of dystopian history.' Jeremy King, The Journal of Modern History
Introduction; 1. Legacies of 1919; 2. Stalinist Gypsy workers; 3. But Roma are rural!; 4. Cracking down on nomadism; 5. Politics get personal; 6. Prague Spring for Roma; 7. Human rights, minority rights, Roma rights; 8. Losing rights after 1989; Conclusion.