Zbyněk Zeman
Zbyněk Zeman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 October 1928 |
| Died | 22 June 2011 (aged 82) |
Zbyněk Anthony Bohuslav Zeman (18 October 1928 – 22 June 2011) was a Czech historian who later became a naturalized British citizen.[1] He published widely on the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century. As an academic, he taught at the Universities of St Andrews, Lancaster, Oxford and Prague.[1]
He also worked for The Economist magazine and Amnesty International.[2] In particular, Zeman was responsible for organising the translation into English of A Chronicle of Current Events, the samizdat periodical that documented human rights violations in the USSR from 1968 to 1982.
Selected works
- Uranium Matters: Central European Uranium in International Politics, 1900–1960 (with Rainer Karlsch, Budapest: CEU Press, 2008)
- The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884–1948: Czechoslovakia in Peace and War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
- The Making and Breaking of Communist Europe (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991)
- Pursued by a Bear: The Making of Eastern Europe (London: Chatto & Windus, 1989)
- Heckling Hitler: Caricatures of the Third Reich (London: Tauris, 1984; 2nd edn. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987)[3]
- Selling the War: Art & Propaganda in World War II (London: Orbis Books, 1978)
- Comecon Oil and Gas within the Overall Energy Context (with Jan Zoubek, London: Financial Times Press, 1977)
- The Masaryks: The Making of Czechoslovakia (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976; reprinted by Tauris, 1990)
- A Diplomatic History of World War I (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971; US edition as The Gentleman Negotiators: A Diplomatic History of World War I, New York: Macmillan, 1971)
- Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (London: BPC Unit 75, 1971)
- Prague Spring: A Report on Czechoslovakia 1968 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969)
- The Merchant of Revolution: The Life of Alexander Israel Helpland (Parvus) 1867–1924 (with Winfried Scharlau, London: Oxford University Press, 1965)
- Nazi Propaganda (London: Oxford University Press, 1964; 2nd edn. 1973)
- The Break-Up of the Habsburg Empire 1914–1918: A Study in National and Social Revolution (London: Oxford University Press, 1961)
- Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915–1918: Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry (London: Oxford University Press, 1958)
References
- ^ a b Cornwall, Mark (2011). "Zbynek Zeman obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ "Historik Zbyněk Zeman hostem Historického magazínu". ČT24. 27 November 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
- ^ Danziger, Jeff (10 December 1987). "Waging war with a pen—a history of cartoons against Hitler". Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2011.