The Czechoslovak Experiment, 1918-1992

这本书将提供捷克斯洛伐克从第一次世界大战结束建立到1993年1月1日L解体的历史。它将写得很简单，供普通读者阅读；但也应该引起专家的兴趣，因为它将使用捷克和斯洛伐克的档案材料(包括捷克斯洛伐克秘密警察的整个战后档案)，这些材料以前从未被查阅过，甚至指出了对慕尼黑危机和布拉格之春等众所周知的主题的激进重新解释。这本书利用了广泛的资料来源，试图避免以捷克为中心，平衡组成捷克斯洛伐克的各国人民往往截然不同的看法。尽管捷克斯洛伐克只维持了74年，但它经历了民主、法西斯主义和共产主义，作为对这个国家的密切研究，1918年至1992年的捷克斯洛伐克实验应该为支撑当前对20世纪欧洲的解释的大国视角提供了有价值的纠正。

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.