Zbyněk Zeman
Zbyněk Anthony Bohuslav Zeman was a Czech historian who later became a naturalized British citizen. He published widely on the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century. As an academic, he taught at the Universities of St Andrews, Lancaster, Oxford and Prague.
He also worked for The Economist magazine and Amnesty International. In particular, Zeman was responsible for organising the translation into English of A Chronicle of Current Events, the samizdat periodical that documented human rights violations in the USSR from 1968 to 1982.
Selected works
Uranium Matters: Central European Uranium in International Politics, 1900–1960 The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884–1948: Czechoslovakia in Peace and War The Making and Breaking of Communist Europe Pursued by a Bear: The Making of Eastern Europe Selling the War: Art & Propaganda in World War II Comecon Oil and Gas within the Overall Energy Context The Masaryks: The Making of Czechoslovakia A Diplomatic History of World War I Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Prague Spring: A Report on Czechoslovakia 1968 The Merchant of Revolution: The Life of Alexander Israel Helpland 1867–1924 Nazi Propaganda The Break-Up of the Habsburg Empire 1914–1918: A Study in National and Social Revolution- ''''