Před více než rokem zemřel historik Karel Durman: (13. 6. 1932, Bystřice pod Hostýnem – 14. 4. 2003, Uppsala)
Historian Karel Durman Passed Away More Than a Year Ago: (13. 6. 1932, Bystřice pod Hostýnem – 14. 4. 2003, Uppsala)

Summary/Abstract: The obituary commemorates the Czech historian and distinguished scholar of Cold War history Karel Durman (1932–2023). Durman began his scholarly career in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, but after the defeat of the Prague Spring 1968 he was not allowed to practice his profession as a reformist communist. He emigrated to Sweden in the following year. He anchored at the Institute for East European Studies, University of Uppsala, where he gradually established himself as an internationally renowned historian of European history from the 1870s to the 1990s, and especially of East-West relations from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War. He also dealt with the Russian and Soviet politics and post-war developments in theSoviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. His monograph "Útěk od praporů: Kreml a krize impéria 1964–1991" [Desertion: The Kremlin and the Crisis of Empire, 1964–1991] published in 1998, and his two-volume synthesis "Popely ještě žhavé: Velká politika1938–1991" [Ashes Still Hot: The Great Politics, 1938-1991], published in 2004 and 2009, have been of major importance to the Czech scholarly community.

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