doc. Dr. phil. Rudolf Kučera, Ph.D.

Director of the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

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Office hours by appointment

Research Areas

Comparative and Transnational History of the 19th and 20th Century (especially Central and East-Central Europe)
Cultural History of Work
History of Modern Wars and Violence
History of Late Socialism and Postsocialist Transformation
History of Historiography
History of Science in Central Europe

Recent Publications

Books

Paths out of the Apocalypse. Physical Violence in the Fall and Renewal of Central Europe, 1914-1922, Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press 2022, Co-authored with Ota Konrád

Rationed Life. Science, Everyday Life, and Working Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914-1918. Berghahn Books, Oxford – New York 2019 (Paperback) 2016 (Hardback).

Cesty z Apokalypsy. Fyzické násilí v pádu a obnově střední Evropy 1914-1922 [Out of the Apocalypse. Physical Violence in the Fall and Reconstruction of Central Europe 1914-1922]. Academia Verlag, Prag 2018. Co-authored with Ota Konrád

Staat, Adel und Elitenwandel. Die Adelsverleihungen in Schlesien und Böhmen 1806-1871 im Vergleich. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012.

Journal Articles

Exploting Victory, Bewailing Defeat: Uniformed Violence in the Creation of the New Order in Czechoslovakia and Austria 1918–1922. Journal of Modern History 88 (2016), Nr. 4, pp. 827-855.

Facing Marxist Orthodoxy: Western Marxism, The Making, and the Communist Historiographies of Czechoslovakia and Poland, 1948–1990. International Review of Social History 61 (2016), Nr. 1, pp. 35-50.

Wobec dogmatizmu. Zachodni marksizm, The Making of the English Working Class i komunistyczne historiografie w NRD, Czechoslowacji i Polsce 1948-1990. Stan Rzeczy 10 (2016) Nr. 1, pp. 144-166.

Making Standards Work. Semantics of Economic Reform in Czechoslovakia 1985–1992. Zeithistorische, Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History 12 (2015), Nr. 3, pp. 427-447.

Marginalizing Josefina. Work, Gender and Protest in Bohemia 1820-1844. Journal of Social History 46 (2012), Nr. 2, pp. 430-448.

Muži ve válce, válka v mužích. Maskulinity a světové války 20. století v současné kulturní historiografii [Men in War, War in Men. Masculinities and World Wars of the 20th Century in Contemporary Cultural History]. Soudobé dějiny 19 (2011), Nr. 4, pp. 549-562.

Středovýchodní, střední, centrální. Střední Evropa v německojazyčné historiografii 1950-2010 [East-Central, Central, Zentral. Central Europe in the German-speaking Historiography 1950-2010]. Slovo a smysl 10 (2011), Nr. 2, pp. 32-46.

Chapters in Collective Volumes

Losing Manliness: Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the Home Front. In Bürgschwentner, J.; Egger, M.; Barth-Scalman, G. (ed.). Other Fronts, Other Wars? First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial. Boston: Brill, 2014. pp. 331-348.

Politika. In Storchová, L. (ed.). Koncepty a dějiny. Proměny pojmů v současné historické vědě. Praha: Scriptorium, 2014. pp. 133-145.

Entbehrung und Nationalismus. Die Erfahrung tschechischer Soldaten der österreichisch-ungarischen Armee 1914-1918. In Bachinger, B.; Dornik, W. (ed.). Jenseits des Schützengrabens. Der Erste Weltkrieg im Osten: Erfahrung – Wahrnehmung – Kontext. Wien : Studienverlag, 2013. pp. 121-137.

Úvod: Kategorie identity v současné historiografii. In Kučera, R. (ed.). Identity v českých zemích 19. a 20. století: Hledání a proměny. Praha : Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, 2012, pp. 8-23. Co-authored with Martina Power

Philanthropy and Public Donation Striving for the State Recognition. The Bohemian Ennoblements 1806-1871. In Hlavačka, M. (ed.). Collective and Individual Patronage and the Culture of Public Donation in Civil Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries in Central Europe. Praha: Institute of History, 2010. pp. 194-209.

Academic CV

Education

2008
Joint Dr.Phil-PhD Degree in Modern and Comparative History of Europe, Free University Berlin and Charles University Prague

2004
MA in Modern History, Charles University Prague

Employment History

From 2021: Visiting Professor, Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz

2020 – present: Director of the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

2017 – present: Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague

2014 – 2020: Deputy Director for Research, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

3/2019 – 6/2019: Visiting Professor at the Institute for East-European History,University of Vienna

10/2013-9/2014: Senior Fellow, Imre Kertész Kolleg, University of Jena

2012-2013: Head of Department for Research and Source Editions, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

10/2009–9/2010: Junior Fellow, School of History, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg im Breisgau

2009-2012: Permanent Researcher, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague