Institute of Contemporary History Ústav pro soudobé dějiny Akademie věd České republiky

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The Institute of Contemporary History (ÚSD) is part of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Its mission is to conduct basic research of Czech and Czechoslovak history after 1938 in an international context. The Institute was established at the beginning of 1990 on the initiative of the Civic Forum's Historical Commission. The idea was based on the experience of most Western European countries, where institutes focused on the research of recent history have been active for several decades. The Institute is now divided into three departments, chronologically, covering the period from 1938 to the present (separation of the occupation history and the building of socialism, the division of real socialism and the separation of late socialism and post-socialism). Since 2002 there has been a department for the history of science at the ÚSD since 2009 as the Cabinet of the History of Science. In parallel with this structure, there is a structure of smaller, flexible, sometimes for some time existing work teams and centers. These include the Center for Oral History, the Center for the Study of the Cold War and its Impacts, the Center for Minority History, the working group on the History of the Communist Party, the working group on Czech Society 1938-1948, the working group on Society and the Regime, the working group on the History of Parliamentaryism, the working group on Contemporary Environmental history and the Inclusive History working group.

The Institute manages in the Czech Republic a unique branch library open to the professional public, extensive collections of documentation on contemporary history, and systematically builds documentation for history after 1989. Since 1993, the Institute has also published a Journal of contemporary history, which is published in English Translation since 2013 (Czech Journal of Contemporary History).

(Taken from http://www.usd.cas.cz/o-ustavu/)

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Location

Vlašská 355/9, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
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Website

www.usd.cas.cz

Date of founding

1990

Acronym (if any)

ÚSD AV ČR

Type of organisation

Library
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School/educational institution

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Government/State organisation

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Stakeholder

Interviews Collection of the Oral History Center

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vons.cz

Author(s) of this page

Vrtálková, Anna

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References

Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://usd.cas.cz

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