Liberalization of political and ideological barriers after the fall of Communistic regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989 has led to intensification of research of period 1918-1948. Although it presents relatively short historical period, it involved some milestones like first Czechoslovak Republic, after-Munich fall of democratic parliamentary, the Second World War and transformation after the war, that altogether resulted in start of Communistic regime in February 1948. and Jaroslav Šebek.
Autor výše uvedené recenze (Na pomezí historického románu. In: Soudobé dějiny, roč. 22, č. 3-4, 2015,, s. 524-539) knihy Igora Lukeše Československo nad propastí, respektive On the Edge of the Cold War, tímto příspěvkem reaguje na Lukešovu polemiku. Sám stručně polemizuje s různými body Lukešovy argumentace a uzavírá, že na své recenzi by nezměnil vůbec nic, protože Igor Lukeš nevyvrátil žádnou z jeho námitek a řadu dalších ignoroval., In this contribution, the autor or the review of Igor Lukeš´s On the Edge of the Cold War (''Na pomezí historického románu'' [Almost a Historical Novel], Soudobé dějiny, vol. 22 (2015), nos. 3-4, pp. 254-39), which is under discussion here, reacts to Lukeš´s rejoinder. He briefly takes issue with various points of Lukeš´s argument and concludes that he would not change a single thing in his review, because Lukeš ignores a number of objections and elsewhere fails to provide satisfactory counterarguments for others., Vít Smetana., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy