V obsáhlé recenzi autorka přibližuje hlavní zjištění, k nimž dospěl Jakub Rákosník ve své monografii, a přisuzuje jí celkově vysokou úroveň a výrazný přínos k odbornému zpracování tématu. Oceňuje na ní zejména komplexní přístup, promyšlenou konceptualizaci, vyloženou v rozsáhlém teoretickém úvodu a důsledně verifikovanou ve vlastním výkladu, výrazné propojení historické a právnické erudice, permanentní snahu o mezinárodní komparaci československé problematiky, smysl pro postižení kontinuity historických jevů, efektivní využití statistických údajů a celkově přehledný a srozumitelný způsob výkladu., In this long review of a work whose title translates as ‘The Sovietization of the Welfare State: People’s Democracy and Social Rights in Czechoslovakia, 1945–60’, the reviewer discusses the main points of this new monograph. On the whole she assesses it highly as a considerable contribution to our understanding of the subject. She praises in particular the comprehensive approach, the thoughtful conceptualization laid out in a long theoretical introduction and thoroughly tested in the author’s own interpretation, as well as his considerable linking of historical and legal knowledge, his continuous efforts to see the Czechoslovak question in an internationally comparative perspective, a keen sense of the continuity of historical phenomena, the effective use of statistics, and an overall clear, comprehensible method of interpretation., and [autor recenze] Lenka Kalinová.
This study deals with the view of Václav Červinka, son-in-low of František Ladislav Rieger, administrator of Rieger's estate Maleč and a man of many intellectual interests, on radical changes of the Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century, especially destruction of traditional political, economic, social and cultural structures, outbreak of the First World War, collapse of the Austria-Hungary and estabilishment of the independent Czechoslovakia. It is shown, how Červinka, as a man who was closely tied to the traditional conservative policy and politicians of the end of the 19th century, evaluated all these changes and what was his reaction, e. g. in his literary work.
The paper interconnects studies of everyday life and everyday consumption and research on socialist housing estates. It is based on an ethnographic stydy of Petržalka, the biggest housing estate in Bratislava, located at the south band of the river Danube.