Institute of Contemporary History

Research interests:

• Political history of late socialism and post-communist transformation, ethnic relations, ideological orientations

Education:

• 2017–2023: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, History / General History (PhD)
• 2011–2014: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Sociology (MA)
• 2007–2010: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Sociology (BA)

Employment (in the field):

• 2024 – until now: research assistant, Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Grant and research projects:

• 2024–2025: The Role of Central Europe in Ending the Cold War and Shaping the Post-Cold War International Order, GA ČR, team member

Journal articles:

• Janíčko, Michal (2024). Changes in the Attitudes of Slovenian Communist Leaders toward Yugoslav Statehood in the Late 1980s. Nationalities Papers, FirstView: 1–25.
• Janíčko, Michal (2023). Slovinské veřejné mínění o Jugoslávii v 80. letech 20. století a jeho reflexe v místním komunistickém vedení. Historical Sociology 15(2): 101–124.
• Janíčko, Michal (2023). Yugoslav Politics in the 1980s from the Perspective of Boris Muževič and Other Former Slovenian Communists. Tokovi istorije, 31(3): 259–277.
• Janíčko, Michal (2023). Nacionalismus jako most do budoucnosti. Ideologie slovinských komunistů v Jugoslávii po Titovi (1980–1986). Czech Journal of Contemporary History, XXX(1): 99–136.
• Janíčko, Michal (2022). The Ideological Transformation of Milan Kučan in 1986–1988: Views on Socialism and the Coexistence of Nations in Yugoslavia. Journal of the Institute of Croatian History, 54(2): 229–264.
• Janíčko, Michal (2021). The Position of Slovenian Representatives in Disputes in the Leadership of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1986–1988. Slavonic Review, 107(1): 117–167.

Book reviews:

• Janíčko, Michal (2022). Hrvoje Klasić: Mika Špiljak, revolucionar i državnik. Slavonic Review 108(1): 184–194.
• Janíčko, Michal (2020). Jure Ramšak: (Samo)upravljanje intelekta. Družbena kritika v poznosocialistični Sloveniji. Czech Journal of Contemporary History, 27(2): 408–414.
• Janíčko, Michal (2018). Andrija Čolak, Agonija Jugoslavije. Modern History, 26(2): 311–315.
• Janíčko, Michal (2018). Božo Repe: Milan Kučan, prvi predsednik. Slavonic Review, 104(2): 413–421.

Conference:

• Interaction between the communist leadership and public opinion in Slovenia in the late 1980s. Centralist Ambitions and Peripheral Realities in the 20th Century: Contested Identities in Yugoslavia. Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, May 16, 2023.