Kronikář komunistického Československa. Karel Kaplan a studium soudobých dějin

• Authors: Vítězslav Sommer

Title variants

EN

A Chronicler of Communist Czechoslovakia: Karel Kaplan and Contemporary History

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The author here attempts to pinpoint the place of the historian Karel Kaplan (b. 1928) in the context of Czech historiography of the last half century, to show the changes in the basic tendencies characterizing his work, and to consider his role in the formation of the fi eld of contemporary history in the Czech Republic. Kaplan is perhaps the most prolifi c and most translated Czech historian living today. His career is emblematic of the path taken by Czech research on contemporary history and its writing.

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Soudobé dějiny (Contemporary History)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 341-356

Contributors

author

Vítězslav Sommer

• Soudobé dějiny, redakce, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i., Vlašská 9, 118 40 Praha 1, Czech Republic