The Czechoslovak Exile Community After February 1948

Political scientist and historian Martin Nekola will discuss anti-communist exile in the first decade of the Cold War: its leaders, organizations and intellectual centers in the USA and Western Europe, including the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) and its first president Vaclav Hlavaty, the world-renowned mathematician.

Martin Nekola, a political scientist and historian, received his PhD in political science from Charles University in Prague. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in 2013 at Columbia University. His research is focused on non-democratic regimes, the era of Communism, Czech communities abroad and the East-European anti-communist exiles in the United States during the Cold War. He has written two hundred articles and has published eight books, including Emissaries of the Swastika (Vyslanci hakoveho krize, 2011), Operation Condor (Operace Kondor, 2012), Petr Zenkl: Politician and Man (Petr Zenkl: Politik a clovek, 2014), Bloody Century (Krvave stoleti, 2015) and (Ceske Chicago, forthcoming).