ЧЕСИ, ПРАШКО ПРОЛЕЋЕ И НАТО БОМБЕ: Прилог проучавању политичке историје Чеха и Словака
Abstract
Another monograph saw the light of day Чеси, Прашко пролеће и НАТО бомбе – Прилог проучавању политичке историје Чеха и Словака, authored by Kirill Shevchenko, published by the Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade. This monograph, comprehensive in structure and instruction, was originally written in Russian under the title От импровизации к цугцвангу: Пражская весна 1968 года и Варшавский договор, and it was translated from Russian by Ms. Dajana Lazarević.
Author prof. Dr. Kiril Shevchenko, deals with the history of Czechoslovakia and points to the most important events that have befallen its political scene, including debunking the myth of the Prague Spring in 1968 and its consequences. All political fairy tales of the Slavs begin with stories about reforms, freedom, cultural development, the right of nations, the fight against censorship, free economic development, and end with the loss of identity, territories, people’s lives, corruption and the use of Western bombs.
Although Shevchenko mainly deals with minority groups of Slavic peoples (Rusyns and Lusatian Serbs), he is the author of studies and monographs on Czechs and Slovaks, issues related to the Union and identity, i.e. Orthodoxy and the Slavs, thus making important contributions to the study of neglected scientific issues for the Slavic world . In this sense, the book that is in front of the readers is not surprising either, an epoch-making scientific material that gave a kind of anatomy of the psychosocial portrait of the Czechs, their politics, but also the politics of the West and the politics of the USSR, and of course the Russians.
For those less in the know, author Kirill Shevchenko is a professor at the Minsk (Belarus) Branch of the Russian State Social University (RGSU). At the same time, he teaches at the Department of Russian History of Smolensk State University (SMOLGU, Smolensk, Russia). He is the author of more than 200 publications in Russian, Serbian, Czech, English and Ruthenian languages, including five monographs. For decades, he has represented one of the most active Russian-Belarusian authors on the territory of Serbian countries. It can be said that Shevchenko is a people’s diplomat in the field of science, because cooperation with Serbian colleagues also happens outside of institutional support.
