Bc. František Stárek (*1952)

František Stárek

research focus

  • Czechoslovak underground
  • activities of Charter 77
  • samizdat (editing, production, distribution, conspiracy)
  • the prison system in the 1970s and 1980s

Contact

professional curriculum

  • since 2008 Institute for the Study of Totalitarian0 Regimes
  • 1996 completed Bachelor's degree in Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno
  • 1990-2007 Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Democracy (OPCD), Federal Information Service (FIS), Federal Security Information Service (FBIS), Security Information Service of the Czech Republic (BIS CR) - senior counterintelligence officer
  • 1979-1990 publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine Vokno
  • 1977 signatory of Charter 77
  • 1976-1989 repeatedly convicted for organizing underground culture and disseminating samizdat 
  • 1968-1973 Secondary Industrial School of Mining in Duchcov

Bibliography

  • KUDRNA, Ladislav - STÁREK, František: A book in the colour of blood: the violence of the communist regime against the (proto)underground. Academia - Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague 2020, 601 p.
  • STÁREK, František - VALENTA, Martin: Underground Symphony of Plastic People. Argo - Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague 2018, 373 p.
  • KUDRNA, Ladislav - STÁREK, František Čuňas: "Band". The background of the action that created Charter 77. Academia - ÚSTR, Prague 2017, 412 p.
  • KUDRNA, Ladislav - STÁREK, František: (Proto)underground in the politics of the Communist Party: selected reflections from 1965-1980, In: Moderní dějiny: časopis pro dějiny 19. a 20. století, vol. 25, no. 2 (2017), pp. 239-264.
  • KUDRNA, Ladislav - STÁREK, František: That Time in the North. Teplice Underground versus Public and State Security 1965-1985, In.
  • KUDRNA, Ladislav - STÁREK, František: (Proto)underground: several remarks on the development of the underground movement, In.
  • STÁREK, František - CINGROŠ, Marian: Legends of Magor. Pulchra, Prague 2015, 116 p.
  • STÁREK, František: Na dočesné se kofola nepije, In: Paměť a dějiny, vol.9, no. 1 (2015), pp. 111-112.
  • KUDRNA, Ladislav - STÁREK, František: The intervention that changed the underground: Rudolfov, 30 March 1974, In .
  • DENČEVOVÁ, Ivana - STÁREK, František - STEHLÍK, Michal: Faces of the Underground. Radioservis, Prague 2012, 238 p. + 1 CD.
  • MACHOVEC, Martin - NAVRÁTIL , Pavel - STÁREK , František (eds.): "The Brown Book" on the Trials of the Czech Underground. Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague 2012, 515 p.
  • STÁREK, František: In the beginning was the word... were the Hells Devils, In: Memory and History, vol.5, no. 2, (2011,) pp. 17-27.
  • KOSTÚR, Jiří - STÁREK, František Čuňas: Barracks. Archipelago of Freedom. Pulchra, Prague 2010, 638 p.

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