Institute of Contemporary History

Positions:

• 1998– The Institute of Contemporary History Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague – Deputy Director
• 1994– Senior Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, chief area of interest is Contemporary Czech and Czechoslovak history in 20-th Century, as well as the development of the political system and partisanship
• 1993–1994 Lecturer in Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences, the Police Academy of the Czech Republic
• 1981–1993 Researcher and senior researcher in the Institute of Czechoslovak and World History, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, in 1990 the Historical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

University degrees and other qualifications:

• 2011 Professor of Czech and Czechoslovak History (Silesian University, Opava)
• 2005 Docent of Political Science (Charles University, Prague)
• 1989 Candidate of Sciences of Czech and Czechoslovak History, (CSc. Academy of Sciences)
• 1983 PhDr. (Charles University Prague, Faculty of Arts,)
• 1980 Graduated in History and Philosophy (Charles University Prague, Faculty of Arts)

Regular university courses:

• 2000– Charles University, Prague
• 2007– University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem

Selected grants of the last five years:

• A Survey of Foreign Compensation Measures for Persona Non-Proprietary Losses in Favour of Czechoslovak and Czech Victims of Nazism (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic 2011)
• Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and Bolshevism (Czech Science Foundation 2008-2012)
• Changes of Ownership and Other Property Relations in the Czech Lands between 1945 and 1960. Character, definition, institutional base (Czech Science Foundation 2014-2016)

Select publications of the last five years:

• Kocian, J. (ed.) – Devátá, M. (ed.): February 1948 in Czechoslovakia. Beginning of communist totalitarianism and transformations of the society. Prague : Institute of the Contemporary History Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 2011. ISBN 978-80-7285-108-9
• Kocian, J. (ed.) – Pažout, J. (ed.) – Rákosník, J. (ed.): Bolshevism, communism and radical socialism in Czechoslovakia. Volume VIII. Prague : Institute of the Contemporary History Academy of Sciences Czech Republic, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7285-152-2
• Kalous, J. (ed.) – Kocian, J. (ed.): Czech and Slovak Communism (1921-2011). Prague : Institute of the Contemporary History Academy of Sciences Czech Republic 2012. ISBN 978-80-7285-156-0
• Kocian, J .: Czechoslovak development in 1945-1948 in the context of Central Europe. In: Štoll, P. et al. Experience and relationships. Latvian and Czech society in the 20th century. Prague: Charles University in Prague, 2013, pp. 71-82. ISBN 978-80-7308-475-2.
• Kocian, J. – Smetana, V. et all: The May elections in 1946 – a fateful choice? Czechoslovakia before the storm. Prague: Euroslavica, 2014, 244 pp. ISBN 978-80-87825-09-9.
• Kocian, J. Antonín Zápotocký. In: Ryantová M. et all: Czechoslovak presidents. Paseka Praha – Litomyšl, 2016, pp. 159-182. ISBN 978-80-7432-500-7