PhDr. Jan Kalous, Ph.D. (*1972)

Jan Kalous

Contact

  • Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century, Opletalova 22, 110 00 Prague 1
  • phone +420 603 860 454
  • E-mail: jan.kalous @ mpxx.cz

research focus

  • Czech and Czechoslovak history after 1945
  • History of the repressive apparatus of communist Czechoslovakia (State Security)
  • Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
  • political processes in Czechoslovakia and Central Europe
  • the events of 1968 and 1969
  • the communist regime and sport

vshare

  • 1987-1991 Gymnasium Žamberk
  • 1991-1998 Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, history - political science (specialization: history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe)
  • 2002 Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague - defended rigorous thesis
  • 2009 Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc - defended dissertation

employment

  • 1999-2007 Office for Documentation and Investigation of Crimes of Communism
  • September 2000-January 2007 Head of the Documentation Department of the Institute of Documentation
  • February-May 2007 Archives of the Security Forces of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic
  • 2007-2009 Head of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Radicalism ARC - University of Political and Social Sciences Kolín
  • 2008 - 2020 Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes of the Czech Republic
  • December 2008 December 2009 - Head of the Department for Research on Communist Totalitarian Power
  • January-September 2010 and June 2012-August 2014 Director of the Department for Research on Totalitarian Regimes
  • September 2010-January 2012 1st Deputy Director
  • from 2020 Museum of Memory of the 20th Century, z.ú.
  • January-November 2020 Head of the Department of Historical Education 
  • from December 2020 to November 2023 Director 
  • from December 2023 Head of the Department of Historical Education

pedagogical activities

  • 2003-2006 teaching at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pardubice
  • since 2003 teaching at Academia Rerum Civilium - University of Political and Social Sciences Kutná Hora

membership of editorial boards  

  • since 2004 member of the editorial board of the journal History and Military Science
  • 2009-2012 member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Sociology
  • 2009-2010, 2012-2020 Member of the Editorial Board of Securitas Imperii
  • 2010, 2012-2016 member of the editorial board of the journal Memory and History
  • since 2011 member of the Editorial Board of the ABS Proceedings
  • since 2014 member of the editorial board of the magazine Memory of the Nation

other activities

  • member of the Syndicate of Journalists of the Czech Republic
  • member of the Centre for Documentation of Totalitarian Regimes
  • since 2012 member of the jury of the literary competition Lidice for the 21st Century
  • since 2013 member of the jury of the history competition Na pivo s Karlem Velikým
  • since 2021 member of the Magnesia Litera jury

Selected bibliography

monographs

  • KALOUS, Jan: The StB Instruction Group in January and February 1950 - behind the scenes of the Číhošt' case. ÚDV Notebook No. 4. ÚDV, Prague 2001
  • KALOUS, Jan: The case of Číhošt'. Independent Centre for Policy Studies. Cologne 2008
  • KALOUS, Jan: Štěpán Plaček. The Life of an Intelligence Fanatic in the Service of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. ÚSTR, Prague 2010
  • BÁRTA, Milan - BŘEČKA, Jan - KALOUS, Jan: Demonstrations in Czechoslovakia in August 1969 and their suppression. ÚSTR, Prague 2012

editor - collective monograph

  • KALOUS, Jan - KOCIAN, Jiří (eds.): Czech and Slovak Communism (1921-2011). ÚSTR - ÚSD AV ČR, Prague 2012
  • KALOUS, Jan - KOLÁŘ, František (eds.): Sport in Communist Czechoslovakia 1945-1989. ÚSTR - Czech Olympic Committee, Prague 2015
  • KALOUS, Jan - ZEMAN, Pavel (eds.): 1945. The end of the war and the reconstruction of Czechoslovakia. ÚSTR, Prague 2018

dictionaries

  • BÁRTA, Milan - BAŠTA, Jiří - CAJTHAML, Petr - CVRČEK, Lukáš - DVOŘÁČEK, Petr - KALOUS, Jan (head of the author's team) - MICHL, Jan - ROKOSKÝ, Jaroslav - SIVOŠ, Jerguš - SOMMER, Vítězslav - TOMEK, Prokop - ZEMAN, Petr - ŽÁČEK, Pavel: Biographical dictionary of representatives of the Ministry of the Interior in the years 1948-1989. Ministers and their deputies. ÚSTR, Prague 2009
  • BÁRTA, Milan - KALOUS, Jan (ed.) - POVOLNÝ, Daniel - SIVOŠ, Jerguš - ŽÁČEK, Pavel (ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Chiefs of Operational Administrations of the State Security in 1953-1989. Academia - ÚSTR, Prague 2017
  • KALOUS, Jan (one of the authors of the entries) in ANEV, Petr - BÍLÝ, Matěj (eds.): Biographical Dictionary of Leading Communist Party Officials (1921-1989). 1919-1981, Academia - ÚSTR, Prague 2018

teaching texts

  • KALOUS, Jan - SRB, Vladimír: Selected chapters from contemporary history I. 1918-1945. Independent Centre for the Study of Politics. Cologne 2006

instructional DVD

  • Expert collaboration on the educational DVD History 1950: the Story of a Miracle. ÚSTR, Prague 2013

Exhibitions

  • Ready to work and defend our country. Fifty years of Czech sport in a totalitarian society. ÚSTR - ČOV, Prague 2014

essays, articles and studies for journals, proceedings and collective monographs

  • KALOUS, Jan: Repression of the Czechoslovak Officer Corps. Army after 1945. In Education for European Democratic Citizenship. Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University, Prague 1998, pp. 144-153
  • KALOUS, Jan: The case of Bohumil Sixta, executed in February 1952. In Securitas Imperii, No. 7. ÚDV, Prague 2001, pp. 170-191
  • KALOUS, Jan: General Jan Šejna - an object of interest of military counterintelligence. In Securitas Imperii, No. 8. ÚDV, Prague 2001, pp. 95-147
  • KALOUS, Jan: Mašínové. In BABKA, Lukáš - VEBER, Václav (eds.): For Freedom and Democracy III. M&V, Hradec Králové 2002, pp. 90-116
  • KALOUS, Jan: Fascism and Communism in the Life of Anatol Vasiljevic B. In Transformation of Czech and Slovak Society on the Threshold of the New Millennium and its Role in the Contemporary Global World. Ales Chenek, Dobrá Voda 2002, pp. 100-105
  • KALOUS, Jan: The fight of the Czechoslovak legions at Bachmač. In VEBER, Václav (ed.): Czechoslovak Legions in Russia. Slovanská knihovna, Prague 2003, pp. 58-71
  • KALOUS, Jan: The Jičín Incident in September 1968. In Proceedings of the Military Academy in Brno. VA, Brno 2004, pp. 187-193
  • KALOUS, Jan - BABKA, Lukáš: Armádní generál Karel Kutlvašr (1895-1961). In Československá justice v letech 1948-1953 v dokumentech. Volume III. ÚDV, Prague, 2004, pp. 15-18
  • KALOUS, Jan: Jan Masaryk (1886-1948). In Jan Masaryk - reflections on his death. ÚDV, Prague 2005, pp. 9-18
  • KALOUS, Jan - Pravda, Ilja: Summary of the results of the investigation into the death of Minister Jan Masaryk. In Jan Masaryk - reflections on his death. ÚDV, Prague 2005, pp. 357-376
  • KALOUS, Jan: General Klecanda - patriot, soldier, diplomat. In Securitas Imperii, No. 12. ÚDV, Prague 2005, pp. 29-39
  • KALOUS, Jan: "Enemies" in the State Security. In PERNES, Jiří - FOITZIK, Jan (eds.): Political Trials in Czechoslovakia after 1945 and the "Slánský Case". Prius, Brno 2005, pp. 282-290
  • KALOUS, Jan: The Miracle of Číhošt'. In Mysteries of Czech History. Reader's Digest Selection, Prague 2005, pp. 542-547
  • KALOUS, Jan: The Jičín Incident - September 1968. In Securitas Imperii, No. 13. ÚDV, Prague 2006, pp. 85-92
  • KALOUS, Jan: Investigation of the suicide of Milan Reiman. In Securitas Imperii, No. 13. ÚDV, Prague 2006, pp. 108-112
  • KALOUS, Jan - POVOLNÝ, Daniel: Colonel SNB Jan Bokr. In Securitas Imperii, No. 13. ÚDV, Prague 2006, pp. 116-121
  • KALOUS, Jan: The Case of "Treason". In Securitas Imperii, No. 13. ÚDV, Prague 2006, pp. 197-200
  • KALOUS, Jan: Reaction of the Czechoslovak population to Polish participation in the 1968 intervention. In BLAŽEK, Petr - KAMIŃSKI, ŁUKASZ - VÉVODA, Rudolf (eds.): Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1968. ÚSD - Dokořán, Prague 2006, pp. 172-201
  • KALOUS, Jan: Štěpán Plaček. In Sborník Archivu Ministerstva vnitra ČR 4/2006. ABS, Prague 2006, pp. 107-148
  • KALOUS, Jan: Criminal punishment of perpetrators of crimes related to the restriction of human rights and freedoms in communist Czechoslovakia - examples. In Human Rights and Freedoms in a Democratic Society. ARC Kolín, 2006, pp. 77-84
  • KALOUS, Jan: The Chernobyl case. In Securitas Imperii, No. 14, ÚDV, Prague 2007, pp. 433-439
  • KALOUS, Jan: Employees of the Institute of International Relations - employees of the Ministry of the Interior (Plaček, Černý, Šnejdárek). In DRULÁK, Petr - KRATOCHVÍL, Petr et al.: 50 years of Czech research on international relations: from the Institute of International Relations to the Institute of International Relations, Prague 2007, pp. 73-116
  • KALOUS, Jan: Was the break-up of Czechoslovakia historically inevitable? In HIRTLOVÁ, Petra - SRB, Vladimír (eds.): Integration and Disintegration. Conference proceedings. ARC, Kolín 2007, pp. 17-24
  • KALOUS, Jan: Štěpán Plaček, His Vision of Czechoslovak Security and Soviet Intelligence (1945-1948) - the Context and Circumstances of the Arrival of Soviet Advisors in Czechoslovakia. In Activities of the NKVD/KGB and their cooperation with secret services in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-1989. Proceedings of the international conference. ÚPN, Bratislava 2008, pp. 95-112 (in the English version of the proceedings pp. 100-118)
  • KALOUS, Jan: Crisis within the security apparatus in the early 1950s. Who was the "traitor" according to Štěpán Plaček? In Pamät' národa, r. IV, 2008, no. 2, ÚPN, Bratislava 2008, pp. 50-60
  • KALOUS, Jan: Parallel of August 1968 and August 1969 - different historical and political experience. In The Legacy of the Prague Spring for the Present and the Future. VŠERS, České Budějovice 2008, pp. 61-66
  • KALOUS, Jan - KADLECOVÁ, Milada: Zu den Deportationen tschechoslowakischer Bűrger in die Sowjetunion nach 1945. In ŽÁČEK, Pavel - FAUELENBACH, Bendt - MÄHLERT, Ulrich (Hg.): Die Tschechoslowakei 1945/48 bis 1989. Studien zu kommunistischer Herrschaft und Repression. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2008, pp. 19-27
  • KALOUS, Jan: Die Kirchenpolitik der Kotech von 1945 bis 1950. In ŽÁČEK, Pavel - FAUELENBACH, Bendt - MÄHLERT, Ulrich (Hg.): Die Tschechoslowakei 1945/48 bis 1989. Studien zu kommunistischer Herrschaft und Repression. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2008, pp. 45-52
  • KALOUS, Jan: Der tschechoslowakische Sicherheitsapparat in den Jahren 1945 bis 1948. In ŽÁČEK, Pavel - FAUELENBACH, Bendt - MÄHLERT, Ulrich (Hg.): Die Tschechoslowakei 1945/48 bis 1989. Studien zu kommunistischer Herrschaft und Repression. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2008, pp. 85-97
  • KALOUS, Jan: Stalin's Concept of the National Question and Political Migration. In HIRTLOVÁ, Petra - LIĎÁK, Ján - SRB, Vladimír (eds.): International Migration in the European Context. Proceedings of the International Conference. ARC, Kolín 2008, pp. 108-124
  • KALOUS, Jan: Czechoslovak emigrant Antonín Šnejdárek (1916 - 1982) - an object of interest of Czechoslovak intelligence. In Czechoslovak Exile 1938-1989 in Foreign Archives. Proceedings of the conference. University of Defence, Brno 2008, pp. 117-141
  • KALOUS, Jan: Political Intelligence of the Ministry of the Interior in February 1948. In Czech, Slovak and Czechoslovak History of the 20th Century. Fateful Eights in Our History. University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové 2008, pp. 293-301
  • KALOUS, Jan: A few remarks about the Jewish religious community in Kolín after 1945. In ZUBÍKOVÁ, Klára (ed.): Jewish Community in Kolín 1848-1953. Collection of studies. Independent Centre for Policy Studies, Kolín 2008, pp. 53-64
  • KALOUS, Jan - DABROWSKI, Darek: Jičín events of 1968 based on Czech and Polish documents. In The Security Apparatus, Propaganda and the Prague Spring. ÚSTR, Prague 2009, pp. 113-124
  • KALOUS, Jan: Cooperation between the KGB and the StB in infiltrating the Russian emigre organisation NTS. In Activities of the NKVD/KGB and its Cooperation with the Secret Services of Central and Eastern Europe 1945-1989, II. ÚSTR, Prague 2009, pp. 263-275
  • KALOUS, Jan: The ups and downs of Leopold Hofman. In Sborník Archivu bezpečnostních složek 6/2008. ABS, Prague 2009, pp. 263-275
  • KALOUS, Jan: Czechoslovakia - occupiers 4:3. Analysis of one night in March. In Memory and History, 2009, no. 2, pp. 22-43
  • KALOUS, Jan: On the content of one lecture. Jaroslav Jerman on the Dvořáček case. In Memory and History, 2009 , No. 4, pp. 48-51
  • KALOUS, Jan: The use of Nazi security agents in the creation of the political intelligence of the Ministry of the Interior after World War II. In PEJČOCH, Ivo - PLACHÝ, Jiří et al.: Occupation, Collaboration, Retribution. MO CR, Prague 2010, pp. 199-209
  • KALOUS, Jan: Reflection on the case of the Mašín brothers in the contemporary context. In Resistance and resistance against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia and Central Europe. ÚSTR, Prague 2010, pp. 145-155
  • KALOUS, Jan: State Security and the Third Resistance in 1948-1951. In VEBER, Václav - BUREŠ, Jan et al.: The Third Resistance. Chapters from the History of Anti-Communist Resistance in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. Publishing house Aleš Čeněk - ÚSTR - Metropolitan University, Prague 2010, pp. 274-286
  • KALOUS, Jan: Karel Černý - the unknown personnel "architect" of the State Security. In Memory and History, 2010, No. 4, pp. 70-79
  • KALOUS, Jan: Inseparable friendship. The visit of Marshal Tito to Czechoslovakia and the cooperation of the security apparatuses. In Memory and History, 2011, no. 1, pp. 3-14
  • KALOUS, Jan: Object of the BUDHA action - Charter 77 signatory Zdeněk Kvítek. In Memory and History, 2011, No. 4, pp. 84-88
  • KALOUS, Jan: Action TRANSLATOR - the case of the secret collaborator MALINSKY. One of the forms of cooperation between the KGB and the StB - infiltration into the Russian emigre organisation NTS. In Sborník Archivu bezpečnostních složek 9/2011. ABS, Prague 2011, pp. 95-124
  • KALOUS, Jan: General Ludvík Krejčí - analysis of the GENERAL action. In PEJČOCH, Ivo - TOMEK, Prokop et al.: From Freedom to Freedom 1945-1956. MO ČR, Prague 2011, pp. 129-137
  • KALOUS, Jan: February and Anti-February by Štěpán Plaček - a distinctive reflection on the events of February 1948. In February 1948 in Czechoslovakia. ÚSD AV ČR, Prague 2011, pp. 119-128
  • KALOUS, Jan: Man with blood on his hands. Some notes on the two-volume memoirs of Karel Košt'ál. In Solitaire. A tribute to historian Václav Veber. ÚSTR, Prague 2012, pp. 195-204
  • KALOUS, Jan: Communists in court. On some aspects of political trials in Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s. In Memory and History, 2012, no. 4, pp. 3-8
  • BÁRTA, Milan - KALOUS, Jan: I will give you communist justice. Documents on the case of Josef Pavel. In Memory and History, 2012, No. 4, pp. 51-65
  • BLAŽEK, Petr - BÁRTA, Milan - KALOUS, Jan - SVOBODA, Libor - ŽÁČEK, Pavel: Faces of State Security Investigators. In Memory and History, 2012, No. 4, pp. 66-75
  • KALOUS, Jan: In the Service of Soviet Advisers. Interpreters Jan (Ivan) Achremenko and Petr Bechyně. In Memory and History, 2012, No. 4, pp. 76-83
  • KALOUS, Jan: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia as the initiator and executor of political purges and trials. In KALOUS, Jan - KOCIAN, Jiří (eds.): Czech and Slovak Communism (1921-2011). ÚSTR - ÚSD AV ČR, Prague 2012, pp. 87-93
  • KALOUS, Jan: CSSR - Occupiers 4:3. An Analysis of one march night. In Bic. Behind the Iron Curtain. ÚSTR, Prague 2013, pp. 19-33
  • KALOUS, Jan: The Subject of Operation BUDHA - Charter 77 Signatory Zdeněk Kvítek. In Bic. Behind the Iron Curtain. ÚSTR, Prague 2013, pp. 134-137
  • KALOUS, Jan: The Last Journey of Minister Kasky. In Memory and History, 2013, no. 1, pp. 25-35
  • KALOUS, Jan: Trial against the so-called Slovak bourgeois nationalists. Husák and Okáli in court. In MICHÁLEK, Slavomír - LONDÁK, Miroslav et al.: Gustáv Husák - the power of politics, the politician of power. Veda, Bratislava 2013, pp. 458-479
  • KALOUS, Jan: Osvald Závodský - actor and victim of political trials. In Memory and History, 2013, No. 3, pp. 85-95
  • KALOUS, Jan: Faith and resistance against collectivization. In ROKOSKÝ, Jaroslav - SVOBODA, Libor (eds.): Collectivization in Czechoslovakia. ÚSTR, Prague 2013, pp. 205-215
  • KALOUS, Jan: Tradition and Continuity of the Second (Anti-Nazi) and Third (Anti-Communist) Resistance. In ŽÁČEK, Pavel et al.: Expressions of respect and gratitude. Proceedings of the Anti-Communist Resistance. Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic - VHÚ Praha, Prague 2013, pp. 105-113
  • KALOUS, Jan: 1953 in the life of the Ministry of National Security and the Ministry of the Interior. In PETRÁŠ, Jiří - SVOBODA, Libor (eds.): Eight years after the war. The Year 1953 in Czechoslovakia. ÚSTR - South Bohemian Museum in České Budějovice, Prague 2014, pp. 19-26
  • KALOUS, Jan: The apple that did not fall far from the tree. Major JUDr. Antonín Prchal Jr., a member of the State Security. In Memory and History, 2015, no. 1, pp. 73-77
  • KALOUS, Jan: The eternal rebel Jaroslav Holík. In Memory and History, 2015, No. 2, p. 121
  • KALOUS, Jan: Against all. Operational unions for the fight against the internal enemy at the Second Administration of the SNB in November 1989. In Memory and History, 2015, no. 4, pp. 66-73
  • KALOUS, Jan: The agent's file. In Memory and History, 2015, No. 4, pp. 105-108
  • KALOUS, Jan: Ludvík Hlavačka and Jindřich Kotal. Typical representatives of the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior 1954-1962. In PETRÁŠ, Jiří - SVOBODA, Libor (eds.): Czechoslovakia in 1954-1962. South Bohemian Museum in České Budějovice - ÚSTR, Prague 2015, pp. 482-490
  • KALOUS, Jan: The use of the bundle (file) agenda of the State Security in the implementation of Act No. 262/2011 Coll. In ŽÁČEK, Pavel et al.: Expressions of respect and gratitude. Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic - VHÚ Praha, Prague 2015, pp. 16-34
  • KALOUS, Jan: Action "Ataman". One of the forms of cooperation between the State Security and the KGB - infiltration into the Russian emigrant organization NTS, II. In Sborník ABS, 13/2015, pp. 153-196
  • KALOUS, Jan: Hockey as politics. Communist regime and hockey 1948-1989. In KALOUS, Jan - KOLÁŘ, František: Sport in Communist Czechoslovakia 1945-1989. ÚSTR - Czech Olympic Committee, Prague 2015, pp. 76-105
  • KALOUS, Jan: Investigator Jozef Kubinec - a probe into the life of a State Security officer. In Policajná história I. Proceedings of the 1st Conference of Police Historians. Slovak Police Historical Society - Hlbiny Publishing House, Bratislava 2016, pp. 203-212
  • KALOUS, Jan: The Peace Race 1986 - a communist sports symbol in the shadow of Chernobyl. In POPAROVÁ, Alžběta - NEUPAUER, František - MELICHEROVÁ, Terézia. ÚPN, Bratislava 2016, pp. 367-380
  • KALOUS, Jan: Unforgettable New Year's speeches. In PETRÁŠ, Jiří - SVOBODA, Libor (eds.) New Year's Eve. Czechoslovakia 1963-1967. South Bohemian Museum in České Budějovice - ÚSTR, Prague 2016, pp. 170-176
  • KALOUS, Jan: One of the fighters. Oskar Valeš and the Spanish Civil War. In Historie a vojenství, 2016, no. 3, pp. 73-80
  • KALOUS, Jan: Excerpts from the chapter "The Volunteer" from Oskar Vales' manuscript "Waking in Darkness". In Historie a vojenství, 2016, no. 4, pp. 97-101
  • KALOUS, Jan: New or Old Security Apparatus? National Security Corps on the scene. In KALOUS, Jan - ZEMAN, Pavel (eds.). The end of the war and the reconstruction of Czechoslovakia. ÚSTR, Prague 2018, pp. 236-248
  • KALOUS, Jan: The events of 1968 and their impact on the life of the commander of the Border Guard, Major General Ing. Karel Peprný - some remarks. In Protection of the State Border and the Year 1968. Technical Museum in Brno, Brno 2019, pp. 62-66
  • KALOUS, Jan: The appreciated and condemned Andrej Kepper, co-creator of political processes. In DUBOVSKÝ, Patrik - GULA, Marián (eds.): Actions, Crimes and Victims of the State Security and Border Guard in 1945-1989. ÚPN, Bratislava 2020, pp. 132-151

author of smaller texts

  • reviews, annotations, reports - Securitas Imperii, Memory and History, History and Military, Proceedings of the Security Forces Archive

lecturing texts

media outputs

  • Czech Television, Czech Radio, print media