Czechoslovakia owes its unfortunate history to its lot as a main stage for the great conflicts of the 20th century. Born a democracy at the end of the First World War, it suffocated through decades of ...

Both of the twentieth century's 74-year-long experiments failed. One was the Soviet Union. The other was Czechoslovakia. Heimann offers a no-punches-pulled political history of Czechoslovakia's whole ...

Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed. By Mary Heimann. Yale University Press; 406 pages; $45 and £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk OUTSIDERS tend to have a soft spot for Czechoslovakia. Poignant ...

In 1918, Czechs (of Bohemia and Moravia) and Slovaks (of Slovakia) united to form one nation called Czechoslovakia. In a peaceful separation, the country split in 1993 into Czech Republic and Slovakia ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — The events unfolding in Ukraine potentially hold dire implications for the future, but ...