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Historická práce profesora Bostonské univerzity se zabývá kořeny a směry Benešovy zahraniční politiky od konce první světové války až do mnichovské dohody v roce 1938. Lukeš podrobně dokládá počátky československé politiky vůči nově vzniklému sovětskému Rusku a důsledky jeho pozdějšího právního uznání stejně jako nesnáze středoevropského státu a Benešovy zahraniční politiky v mantinelech daných aktivním ruský přístupem a poněkud apatickým postojem Západu. Zabývá se Benešovou rolí v tzv. Tuchačevského aféře, reakcí jednotlivých...

Igor Lukeš ve svých textech nabízí dva póly svého pohledu – historii a politiku. Studuje české dějiny 20. století s jejich katastrofami a mýty a dnešní politické problémy u nás, ve Spojených státech, Rusku a v globální rovině. Vychází z toho, že z dějin můžeme čerpat poučení. Historie se sice neopakuje, ale při dostatečně kritickém a hodnotově založeném pohledu můžeme odhalit vlastní chyby a stereotypy, nalézt paralely mezi současností a minulostí, které nejsou na první pohled zjevné. Lukeš prosazuje západní liberální hodnoty, jako je...

The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. But historians have had, until now, only a vague understanding of the roles played by the Soviet Union and by Czechoslovakia, the country whose very existence was at the center of the crisis.

In Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler, Igor Lukes explores this turbulent and tragic era from the new perspective of the Prague government itself. At the center of this study is Edvard Benes, a Czechoslovak foreign...

In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the United States would be able to coexist with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.

In this book, Igor Lukes illuminates the end of World War II and the early stages of the Cold War in Prague, showing why the United States failed to prevent Czechoslovakia from being absorbed into the Soviet bloc. He draws...

The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. The era has been thoroughly examined from the perspectives of Germans, French, and British political establishments. But historians have had, until now, only a vague understanding of the roles played by the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, the country whose very existence was at the very center of the crisis.

In Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler, Igor Lukes explores this turbulent and tragic era from...

In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the United States would be able to coexist with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.

In this book, Igor Lukes illuminates the end of World War II and the early stages of the Cold War in Prague, showing why the United States failed to prevent Czechoslovakia from being absorbed into the Soviet bloc. He draws...

Most of the works on the crises of the 1930s and especially the Munich Agreement in 1938 were written when it was virtually impossible to gain access to the relevant archive collections on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This text studies the Czechoslovak-German crisis and its impact from previously neglected perspectives and celebrates the post-Cold War openness by bringing in new evidence from hitherto inaccessible archives.