Miloslav Rechcigl: Czechoslovakia Past and Present / Political, international, social and economic aspects

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- A. CZECHOSLOVAKIA THROUGH THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- 1. Rise and Fall of the First Czechoslovak Republic: Historical Aspects -- The Role of President Wilson in the Foundation of Czechoslovakia -- Formative Years of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia. The Statesmanship of Antonin ?vehla -- The Entry of German Parties into the Czechoslovak Government -- The Second Czechoslovak Republic, September 1938-March 1939: A Study in Political Change -- The Establishment of Slovak Autonomy in 1938 -- Personal Recollection of a Few Episodes in Czecho-Slovak Relations -- Some Aspects of Carpatho-Ukrainian History in Post-Munich Czechoslovakia -- 2. The First Czechoslovak Republic: Social and Economic Aspects -- The Roots of Czechoslovak Democracy -- Political Parties in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 -- The Normological and Political Bases of the Legal Order of the First Czechoslovak Republic -- Czechoslovakia and International Organization -- Economic and Financial Policy of Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 -- Agriculture in the First Republic of Czechoslovakia -- The Progress of Czechoslovakia's Industrialization and its Effect upon National Unity -- Social Progress in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 -- 3. Czechoslovakia and the Second World War -- The Role of Czechoslovakia in the Origins of World War II -- Organization in the United States of the Struggle for Czechoslovakia's Independence, 1938 to 1941 -- The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: A Re-evaluation -- The Slovak Uprising of 1944 -- The Years of German Occupation, 1939-1945: The First Totalitarian Attack on the Czech Economy -- B. CONTEMPORARY CZECHOSLOVAKIA -- 1. Political Aspects -- The Political Role of the Coup of February 1948 in the History of Socialist Revolutions -- Action Committees: A Case Study of the Application and the Use of Action Committees in the Czechoslovak Nationalist Socialist Party -- The Power Structure of Today's Czechoslovakia -- Czechoslovakia's Relations with Underdeveloped Countries -- Czechoslovakia and the World Communist System -- Czechoslovakia Twenty Years After -- Futures of Czechoslovakia: Some Alternatives - Steps toward an Analytical Model -- 2. Social and Economic Aspects -- Economic Growth of Czechoslovakia Since World War II -- Short- and Long-Term Aspects of Changes in Czechoslovak Agriculture since the Second World War -- The New Economic System in Czechoslovakia -- The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance: Its First Fifteen Years -- Czechoslovak-Polish Cooperation in Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Energy: Foundation and Results -- Czechoslovak Postwar Housing: A Case Study of Communist Czechoslovakia Housing Production as Compared to the United States -- Public Welfare in Today's Czechoslovakia -- Class Struggle and Civil Law: The Case of Czechoslovakia -- Property Rights of Aliens under the Legal Order of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic -- 3. Cultural Aspects -- Contemporary Czechoslovak Philosophy -- The Age of John Hus in Recent Czechoslovak Historical Literature (1948-1961) -- Palacký: A Marxist Portrait -- The Literature of De-Stalinization -- Art in Communist Czechoslovakia -- Total Planning of Science on the National and International Levels -- The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences -- C. CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND THE WORLD -- 1. Czechoslovakia and its Neighbors: Nationalism versus Federalism -- Central Eastern Europe at the Mid-Century -- Czechoslovakia and Austria -- Czechoslovakia and Hungary -- Attempts at Czechoslovak-Polish Cooperation: Achievements and Failures -- Czechoslovakia and Rumania: A Brief Historical Retrospect -- Czechoslovak-Yugoslav Relations, 1933-1938 -- Natonalism versus Federalism in Central and Southeast Europe -- Czechoslovakia's Federalist Heritage: A Historical Perspective -- 2. Czechoslovakia and Great Powers -- Czechoslovak Independence and the Great Powers: Retrospect and Prospect -- Czechoslovakia and Germany, 1933-1945 -- Great-Britain and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1948: