The Czechoslovak Experiment, 1918-1992

这本书将提供捷克斯洛伐克国家从第一次世界大战结束时成立到1993年1月1日解体的历史。它将写得简单，为一般读者；但也应该引起专家们的兴趣，因为它将使用捷克和斯洛伐克的档案材料（包括整个战后捷克斯洛伐克秘密警察档案），这些材料以前从未被参考过，并且指出了对慕尼黑危机和布拉格之春等众所周知的话题的激进重新解释。本书借鉴了广泛的资料来源，力图避免以捷克为中心，平衡构成捷克斯洛伐克的各民族之间常常截然不同的看法。尽管捷克斯洛伐克只存在了74年，但它经历了民主、法西斯主义和共产主义，作为对这个国家的细致研究，《1918-1992年捷克斯洛伐克实验》应该为当前对20世纪欧洲的解读提供有价值的修正。

This book will provide a history of the Czechoslovak state from its creation at the end of the First World War until its dissolution on l January I 993. It will be written simply, for the general reader; but should also interest specialists, since it will use Czech and Slovak archival material (including the entire post-war Czechoslovak secret police archive) which has not been consulted before, and which points to radical reinterpretations of even such well-known topics as the Munich Crisis and Prague Spring. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book will seek to avoid Czech-centeredness, balancing the often sharply differing perceptions of the peoples who made up Czechoslovakia. As a close study of a state which, although it lasted only 74 years, experienced democracy, fascism and communism, The Czechoslovak Experiment, 1918-1992 should offer a valuable corrective to the great-power perspectives which underpin current interpretations of twentieth-century Europe.