Cold War Books in the ‘Other’ Europe and What Came After

Jiřina Šmejkalová, CSc/Ph.D. (1991) in Sociology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Lincoln, UK. She has published on cultural and gender issues in Central Europe, including Kniha [The book] (Host, 2000).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I.Command Book Project: Origins and FeedbacksChapter One.What is known about (totalitarian) books?Chapter Two.Monitoring the ‘Red Model’Part II.Manufacturing Cold War BooksChapter Three.The Ambiguities of Censorship and ResistanceChapter Four.Suppressing the MarginsChapter Five.Performing SilencesChapter Six.The Literary EstablishmentPart III.... and What Comes after ...Chapter Seven.Discontinual ContinuitiesChapter Eight.Freedom in PrintChapter Nine.The Paper RevolutionariesInstead of a ConclusionBibliographyIndex

"Jiřina Šmejkalová’s comprehensive work Cold War Books in the “Other” Europe and What Came After stands out in its ambition to enter into dialogue with an international public and with a readership interested specifically in Czech literature. This ambition is fully achieved. With this major work, Šmejkalová has made a substantial contribution to raising international knowledge of Czech communication culture and updating Bohemist methodology in the rapidly developing field of book history. She offers a wealth of information, fruitful ideas, and reasoning... In short, Šmejkalová’s book constitutes a Czech and international academic event." - Karen Gammelgaard, in: Scando-Slavica, 59:2, 256-257 (Full review text, DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2013.855370)"Le livre de Jirina Smejkalova est passionnant tant son spectre est large, diversifié, tant elle relie en permanence la situation du livre, de ses lecteurs et de ses producteurs à l’ensemble de la situation sociale, avec une grande finesse, tout en nuances. Les lecteurs [...] y apprendront beaucoup." - Martine Poulain, in: Bulletin des bibliothèques de France, Vol. 57, No. 4 (2012), pp. 84-85"[Smejkalová's] monograph is thus an interesting and thorough study, not only from the point of view of publishing, but also from the point of view of Cold War studies." - Sari Autio-Sarasmo, University of Helsinki, in: Slavic Review, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 686-687