Bohemian Rhapsody Pt. II
Prague offers a wide range of exciting 20th century architecture, from the 1920s to the late 1980s.... Read More
Month: May 2019
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague excellently hosted the 27th NISPACee Annual conference 2019 last week (May 23-26). NISPCee is the association of Public Administration scholars in Central and Eastern Europe. Prague is a city of a thousand spires. Prague is a tram city. The public transportation system is well-developed both above […]... Read More
Kutna Hora: Silver ore, Inequality, and Copycatting
Kutna Hora, Kuttenberg in German, a small town of some 40,000 people 70km east of Prague, the Czech capital, benefited from two assets in the past. The first asset were silver ore mines that were detected in the 13th century and exploited until the 16th century. Open pit in the beginning, later on in mine […]... Read More
Chris Miller, 2016. The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR
Chris Miller, 2016. The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR, The University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 914 pages (ebook), about 19.00 EUR. Chris Miller depicts the last years of the Soviet Union as a story of capture and interest groups opposing economic reform. The main […]... Read More