In February 2024, Cambridge University Press published a collective volume titled Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe, edited by Martin Conway and Camilo Ehrlichman. Radka contributed to this book with a chapter on ‘Social justice in Authoritarian Central Europe: Czechoslovakia under Nazism and Communism’. This chapter seeks to illustrate from the bottom up the role social justice played in establishing and maintaining authoritarian rule in Czechoslovakia under National Socialism and state socialism. The author investigates how notions of social justice were included in the social practice of both regimes and how the working population responded to these policies.
In mid-February 2024, Nations Apart. Czech Nationalism and Authoritarian Welfare under Nazi Rule, authored by Radka Šustrová, has been published by Oxford University Press (for British Academy). This book is not an outcome of the MSCA Action research but marked substantially Radka’s starting point when thinking about the investigation of workplace justice. Nations Apart underlines the non-violent dimension of authoritarian rules in Europe by showing strategies of the occupational regime and local participation in building a new order.
The book is available as open access and free to download here
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