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Michaela Pixová and Arnošt Novák

Michaela Pixová is urban geographer and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of sociological studies, faculty of social sciences, Charles University, Prague, with a focus on the role of urban activism and citizen participation in urban planning. She is the vice-president of the activist organization Prague Watch.

Arnošt Novák teaches environmental sociology at Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague. He has been involved in autonomous activism since the 1990’s and he is member of autonomous social center Klinika.

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Articles by Michaela Pixová and Arnošt Novák

  1. Four on-the-spot accounts. The Baltic countries’ path to the future is paved with shadows of the past

    + Arne Bengtsson. Bronssoldatens hämnd: Baltiska betraktelser. [The Revenge of the Bronze Soldier: Baltic Reflections]. Vimmerby: grannland.com 2007. 411 pages. + Arne Bengtsson. Hotad frihet: Baltisk kris i skuggan av Moskva. [Threatened Freedom: Baltic Crisis in the Shadow of Moscow]. Vimmerby: grannland.com 2008. 365 pages. + Peter Handberg. Undergångens skuggor: missiler och möten: reportage. [Shadows of the Demise: Missiles and Meetings: Reports]. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur 2007. 206 pages. + Peter Handberg. Kärleksgraven: Baltiska resor. [The Tomb of Love: Baltic Journeys ]. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur 2008. 326 pages.

  2. A sense of moral superiority. Russian intellectuals

    + Laurie Manchester Holy Fathers, Secular Sons. Clergy, Intelligentsia and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia. Northern Illinois University Press 2008. 288 pages.

  3. A pathbreaker. Robert Conquest and Soviet studies during the Cold War

    + Paul Hollander (ed.) Political Violence: Belief, Behavior, and Legitimation. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MacMillan 2008. 272 pages.

  4. Professional ethics. Has there ever been a Finnish-German common destiny?

    + Marjatta Hietala. De finländska forskarna och orienteringen mot Tyskland under andra världskriget. [The Finnish Researchers and the Orientation Towards Germany during World War II], in Historiska och litteraturhistoriska studier 83 [Historical and Literary-Historical Studies 83] (Malin Bredbacka-Grahn and Johan Strömberg, eds.). Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland: Helsingfors/Helsinki 2008.

  5. A German who has traveled far. The man behind Echolot

    + Dirk Hempel. Walter Kempowski – Eine bürgerliche Biographie. Verlagsgruppe Random House (2007).

  6. Environment. The country of mountains of black ash

    + Jane Dawson Eco-Nationalism: Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Duke University Press, 221 pages. Rurik Holmberg Survival of the Unfit: Path Dependence and the Estonian Oil Shale Industry. Linköping University, 345 pages.

  7. Estonian history. The nation as bridge and battlefield

    + Seppo Zetterberg Viron historia [The History of Estonia] Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran toimituksia 1118 [Publication of Finnish Literary Society]. Hämeenlinna, 2007, 810 pages

  8. Dissertation review. A Marxist interpretation of post-Communist Estonia

    + Peter Bötker Leviatan i arkipelagen. Staten, förvaltningen och samhället. Fallet Estland [Leviathan in the Archipelago: State, Administration, and Society: The Case of Estonia]. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, 2007.

  9. Pioneering work. The history of Soviet incorporations

    + Elena Zubkova Pribaltika i Kreml, 1940–1953 [The Baltic States and the Kremlin, 1940–1953], Moscow: Rosspen 2008. 351 pages.

  10. The Urals. From tractor manufacturing city to armorer’s workshop

    + Lennart Samuelson Tankograd. Den ryska hemmafrontens dolda historia 1917–1953 [Tankograd: The Secret History of the Russian Home Front, 1917–1953]. Stockholm: SNS Publisher 2007. 368 pp., illustrated.

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