Mgr. David Svoboda, MA, Ph.D. (*1977)

research focus

  • contemporary history of Ukraine, Ukrainian-Polish relations and Ukrainian nationalism

Contact

  • Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century, Opletalova 929/22, 110 00 Prague 1
  • tel. +420 603 860 454
  • E-mail: david.svoboda@mpxx.cz

education attained

  • 2003-2007 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities - Cultural and Social Anthropology - doctoral studies (Ph.D.)
  • 1996-2003 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences - Department of Political Science and International Relations - Master's degree (M.A.)
  • 2000-2001 Central European University, history department (graduated with MA)

professional curriculum

  • from 2020 Museum of Memory of the XXth Century - professional editor, managing editor of the review XX.
  • since 2012 Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes - research fellow
  • 2009-2011 Jan Neruda Grammar School in Prague - history teacher
  • 2008-2012 Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes - Editorial Department
  • 2003-2008 quarterly magazine Přítomnost - editor

Bibliography

monographs

  • SVOBODA, David: Apple of Steel: The Birth, Development and Activities of Ukrainian Radical Nationalism 1920-1939. Academia - ÚSTR, Prague 2021, 1016 p.

studies in professional periodicals and proceedings

  • SVOBODA, David: The Year of Fire. The Emergence of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Background of the Volhynia Massacres in 1943. Securitas Imperii, 2015, no. 27/2, pp. 12-42.
  • SVOBODA, David: The posthumous raid of Ukrainian nationalists. Ukrainian Journal, 2015, No. 100.
  • SVOBODA, David: Tenkrát na Volyni. Dilemmas and actions of Ukrainian nationalists under German occupation 1941-1943. Securitas Imperii, 2014, no. 25/2, pp. 78-103.
  • SVOBODA, David: Farewell without emotion. Czechs and Ukrainian autonomy in Subcarpathian Rus during the Second Republic. Memory and History, 2014, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 18-30.
  • SVOBODA, David: The phantom wanders on. On Ukrainian nationalism. Dějiny a současnost, 2014, vol. 36, no. 8.
  • SVOBODA, David: War of the Partisans: the Soviet Partisan Movement, the UPA and Armia Krajowa in 1943. In: ZEMAN, Pavel (ed.): The War Year 1943 in Occupied Europe and in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. ÚSTR, Prague 2014, pp. 35-57.
  • SVOBODA, David: A Long Way to the Woods. The Political Development of Ukrainian Integral Nationalism and the Preconditions for the Emergence of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Securitas Imperii, 2013, no. 22/1, pp. 98-120.
  • SVOBODA, David: The "Ukrainian Card" on the Eve of the Nazi-Soviet War. In: Spivpraccja SRSR i Nimeččyny u mižvojennyj period ta pid čas druhoji svitovoji vijny. Pryčyny i naslidky. Kyiv 2012.

annotation, reviews

  • SVOBODA, David. Review. SHANDOR, Vincent. Securitas Imperii, 2014, no. 25/2, pp. 344-347.
  • SVOBODA, David. Review. Ukrainskyj vyzvolnyj ruch. Centr doslidzhen vyzvolnoho ruchu,
  • Lviv 2003-2013. Memory and History, 2013, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 139-140.
  • SVOBODA, David. Review. SNYDER Timothy: Bloodlands. Europe between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books, New York 2010. Memory and History, 2012, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 138-139.