Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-356) and index.
Contents:
World War Two and the East European revolution -- Intellectuals in the Czech environment -- Four groups of postwar Czech intellectuals -- The communist aim : the creation of a new Czechoslovakia -- The battle over the recent past I : the experiences of Munich and the World War II -- The battle over the recent past II : the First Republic and Tomáš G. Masaryk -- The shift in sensibilities and generations -- The reorientation of national identity : Czechs between East and West -- Socialism and communist intellectuals : the "Czechoslovak road to socialism" -- Socialism and democratic socialist intellectuals : the "new socialist ethos" -- Socialism and Roman Catholic intellectuals : the "fateful struggle between spirit and matter"-- Socialism and Protestant intellectuals : the Kingdom of God on earth? -- The end of Czechoslovak democracy and the rise of communism in Eastern Europe.
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