Institute of Contemporary History

Professional positions:

• 2005– Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, research fellow
  2017– Chairwoman of the Board of the Institute
  2005–2017 Research secretary of the Institute
• 2000–2004 Centre for the history of sciences and humanities (a joint establishment of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences), junior research fellow
• 2011 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, PhD in history
• 1992 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Magister degree

Main areas of research:

• Communist ideology and its promotion
• Ideologization of social sciences after 1945
• Memory of Communism

Research projects:

• The Concept and Enforcement of Communist Education in Czechoslovakia 1948–1989 (2016–2018, Czech Science Foundation, research team member)
• Site Stories: Topography of the Contemporary Memory of the Nation (2011–2015, Ministry of Culture, research team member)
• Political science in Czechoslovakia as instruments of state communist ideology, 1945–1960 (2010–2012, Czech Science Foundation, investigator)
• The College of Political and Economic Sciences (1949–1953). Sovietization of the Czechoslovak education system (2007–2009, Czech Science Foundation, investigator)

Memberships:

• Editorial Board of Soudobé dějiny Journal (2017–)
• Editorial Board of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2009–2017)

Selected bibliography:

Monographs

• Pojetí a prosazování komunistické výchovy v Československu 1948–1989. [Concept and implementation of Communist education in Czechoslovakia] Cuhra, Jaroslav – Černá, Marie – Devátá, Markéta – Hermann, Tomáš – Kourová, Pavlína. Praha: ÚSD AV ČR 2020. 308 s. (Česká společnost po roce 1945 15) ISBN 978-80-7285-250-5
• Marxismus jako projekt nové společnosti. Dvě studie ke společenským vědám (1945–1969). [Marxism as a project of a new society. Two studies on social sciences (1945–1969)] Praha: ÚSD AV ČR 2014. 131 s. (Sešity Ústavu pro soudobé dějiny 46) ISBN 978-80-7285-175-1
• Vědní koncepce KSČ a její institucionalizace po roce 1948. [Science policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and its institutionalization after 1948] Devátá, Markéta – Olšáková, Doubravka – Sommer, Vítězslav – Dinuš, Peter. Praha: ÚSD AV ČR 2010. 288 s. (Práce z dějin vědy 23) ISBN 978-80-7285-123-2
• Volný čas v komunistickém Československu. [Leisure in Communist Czechoslovakia] Čornejová, Alžběta – Devátá, Markéta – Franc, Martin – Pokorný, Jiří – Schindler-Wisten, Petra – Tůma, Oldřich. Praha: ÚSD AV ČR 2010. 55 s. ISBN 978-80-86239-20-0

Articles

• [The Memory of the Prague Spring in the Czech Public Space 50 Years After]. Soudobé dějiny 4 (2019), s. 522–539. ISSN 1210-7050
• The University of Political and Economic Sciences. In: History of the University of Economics, Prague. (I), The history of economic higher education in the Czech lands. Prague: Oeconomica 2019, pp. 81–96. ISBN 978-80-245-2255-5
• [Halfway through the Cold War. The “Half a Century of Communist Cadre Training” Project]. Soudobé dějiny 1–2 (2018), s. 147–174. ISSN 1210-7050
• Terror, Failure, Resistance: Conflicting Memory of Armed Acts of Anti-Communist Resistance in Czechoslovakia. Czech Journal of Contemporary History V (2017), pp. 63–100. ISSN 2336-3134 (on-line)
• [Socialism and building of political school (1945–1969)]. Marginalia historica 2 (2012), s. 32–38. ISSN 1804-5367
• [“Scientific propaganda” contexts in promoting Marxism-Leninism at universities]. In: Kontexty propagandy. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice 2012, s. 213–223. ISBN 978-80-7395-515-1
• [Ideologization of science and education. Forms and impacts of the KSČ cultural policy (1945–53)]. In: Únor 1948 v Československu. Nástup komunistické totality a proměny společnosti. Praha: ÚSD AV ČR 2011, s. 323–335 (together with Doubravka Olšáková)
• [The University of Political and Economic Sciences and the problem of (dis)continuity of economical education in the years 1949–53]; [Teaching economics at the crossroads of two eras: The University of Political Science and Economics in the years 1949–53]. In: Učíme ekonomii 90 let. Praha: Wolters Kluver 2011, s. 73–92 a 217–225. ISBN 978-80-7357-641-7
• [The University of Political and Social sciences in the National front system (1945–49/52)]. Východočeské listy historické 27 (2010), s. 52–63. ISSN 1211-8184
• [A university professor of 50th of the 20th century. Shaping careers of three Marxist historians]. In: Historie prožité minulosti. K šedesátinám Oldřicha Tůmy. Praha: ÚSD AV ČR a IMS FSV UK 2010, s. 47–58. ISBN 978-80-7285-134-2
• [The University of Political and Economic Sciences as an instrument of indoctrination of Marxism-Leninism in sciences]. In: Proměny diskursu české marxistické historiografie. České Budějovice: Jihočeská univerzita 2008, s. 193–204. ISBN 978-80-7394-114-7
• [Russian and Ukrainian emigrants-Slavists at Czech universities after February 1948]. Slavica Litteraria 7 (2004), s. 83–90. ISSN 1212-1509
• [Professors appointed at Czech universities in the years 1948–1950]. AUC–HUCP 1–2 (2003), s. 191–249. ISSN 0323-0562
• [On the history of universities in 1948–1950]. In: Semináře a studie Výzkumného centra pro dějiny vědy z let 2002–2003. Praha: VCDV 2003, s. 631–652. ISBN 80-7285-025-3

Editorship

• Pražské jaro 1968. Občanská společnost – média – přenos politických a kulturních procesů. // Civil Society, the Mass Media, and the Transfer of Political and Cultural Processes in the ‘Prague Spring’ 1968. (České křižovatky evropských dějin 4) Praha: ÚSD AV ČR 2011. ISBN 978-80-7285-119-5 (lead editor Oldřich Tůma)
• Únor 1948 v Československu. Nástup komunistické totality a proměny společnosti. [Czechoslovakia, February 1948. The Coming of Communist Totalitarianism and Social Change] (České křižovatky evropských dějin 3) Praha: ÚSD AV ČR 2011. ISBN 978-80-7285-108-9 (lead editor Jiří Kocian)
• Charta 77. Od obhajoby lidských práv k demokratické revoluci 1977–1989. // Charter 77. From Assertion of Human Rights to a Democratic Revolution, 1977–89. Praha: ÚSD AV ČR 2007. ISBN 978-80-7285-090-7 (lead editor Oldřich Tůma)
• Věda v Československu v období normalizace (1970–1975). [Sciences in Czechoslovakia in the Period of “Normalization”, 1970–75] (Práce z dějin vědy 4) Praha VCDV 2002. ISBN 80-7285-020-2 (lead editor Antonín Kostlán)

Reviews

• [Tichý, M.: Smrt bez spravedlnosti. Mrtví Ratajského lesa. Praha, 2017. 439 s.] Soudobé dějiny 3–4 (2018), s. 558–562. ISSN 1210-7050
• [Stehlík, M.: Babické vraždy 1951. Praha, 2016. 255 s.] Soudobé dějiny 3 (2016), s. 435–440. ISSN 1210-7050
• [Sommer, V.: Angažované dějepisectví. Stranická historiografie mezi stalinismem a reformním komunismem (1950-1970). Praha, 2011. 508 s] Práce z dějin Akademie věd 2 (2012), s. 288–291. ISSN 1803-9448

Conferences and workshops:

• Forum 30 Years of Contemporary History (org. Institute of Contemporary History), Oct. 10 2020 Praha; intervention in the panel discussion “Contemporary history in the media and political context since the 1990s”
• 50 Annual ASEEES Convention, Dec. 6–9 2018 Boston; “Teaching of Marxism-Leninism in Czechoslovakia 1948–1989 and the Prague Spring” paper
• The Prague Spring 50 Years After: Great Crises of Communist Regimes in Central Europe in a Transnational Perspective (org. Institute of Contemporary History), 13.–15. 6. 2018 Praha; “The Prague spring in Czech remembrance” paper
• The establishment of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 and its consequences for society (org. Nation’s Memory Institute), 20.–21. 2. 2018 Bratislava; “Promoting the KSČ cultural and scientifical policy” paper