[This post is a reposting of a contribution to the blog hist.net.] Because my friendly Amazon.com bot knows that I purchase books on Czech and Slovak history, I just received a notice of a new book on Slovak history titled Slovak Republic (1939-1945): Slovaks, Slovakia, Munich Agreement, History of Czechoslovakia (1948-1989). Because this title seemed…
Tag: Eastern Europe
The Real #1
Forget about the University of Alabama — the real number one out there turns out to be…me. Who knew? It turns out that a fellow blogger, writing at Do It Yourself Scholar, decided that the podcasts of my lectures from my course Nationalism in Eastern Europe (last given in the fall of 2007) were the…
Why Georgia is not Czechoslovakia
Because August 20-21 was the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the news media and a number of politicians (especially the U.S. Secretary of State) have been having a field day comparing the events of 1968 to those of 2008 in Georgia. These kinds of historical comparisons are almost always a problem…
No. That’s Not Your Name!
As someone whose research and teaching center on modern Eastern Europe, the most recent news from across the Atlantic is just more fodder for a great lecture. For the umpteenth time, the Greek government has vetoed Macedonia’s entry into a European structure–in this case NATO–because those pesky Macedonians persist in calling their country Macedonia. Can…