Introduction : The Cold War and Contemporary Understandings of the Communist Takeover of Czechoslovakia -- 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 : May 5, 1945, versus October 28, 1918 -- 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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