Vojtech Mastny (historian)

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Vojtech Mastny (* 1936 in Prague ) is an American historian of Czech origin who specializes in the history of the Cold War .

Life

Vojtěch Mastný was born in Prague shortly before Czechoslovakia was broken up by Germany. His great-uncle of the same name was an important diplomat of the Czechoslovak state in the interwar period. After the end of the Second World War, the Communist Party took power in the CSSR in 1948 with the February revolution . As a result, Mastny was not allowed to attend high school because he belonged to the "wrong class ". Instead, he had to work as a mechanic in the electrical signal company, and at the same time attended a middle school for workers (“Stredni skola pro pracujici”). After he had worked for further re-education on an agricultural collective estate, he was able to study at the Charles University in Prague. There he obtained his degree in Medieval Studies in 1962 . Shortly after graduating, Mastny emigrated to the USA , where he received his doctorate from Columbia University in New York. His dissertation dealt with the Nazi rule over Bohemia and Moravia.

Mastny has held professorships in history and political science at Columbia, the University of Illinois , Boston University at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies . He taught as a visiting professor at the US Naval War College and with a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Bonn . He was a Senior Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Senior Fellow at the National Security Archive . He is the coordinator of the Parallel History Project

Fonts

  • The Czechs under Nazi Rule: the failure of national resistance, 1939-1942 . Columbia University Press, New York 1971, ISBN 0-231-03303-6 . (Awarded the Clarke F. Ansley Prize in 1971)
  • Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, warfare, and the politics of communism, 1941-1945 . Columbia University Press, New York 1979, ISBN 0-231-04360-0 . (German translation was published by Oldenbourg in 1980, ISBN 3-486-49921-1 )
  • The Helsinki Process and the Reintegration of Europe, 1986-1991: analysis and documentation . New York University Press, New York 1992 ISBN 0-8147-5476-7 .
  • The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years . Oxford University Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-19-510616-4 . ( Awarded the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize in 1997 )
  • A cardboard castle? : an inside history of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991 . Central European University Press, Budapest 2005, ISBN 9637326081 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vojtech Mastny in the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML).
  2. ^ Recording Voices and Documenting Memories , Biographies of Participants. Washington DC, March 24, 2011.
  3. ^ Vita Vojtech Mastny at the Wilson Center