Tomas Sniegon

Tomas Sniegon (Czech-Swedish)

Senior Lecturer, European Studies, University of Lund

Program:

Visegrad Scholarship at OSA

Attendance Period:

Mar/2023 - May/2023

Research Title:

Authoritarianism with Human Face? New Analysis of Czechoslovak ”Prague Spring 1968” and Its ”Lessons from History”.

Research Description:

Compared to the studies that have already been written on the subject, my research uses new sources that have only recently become available, along with previously unused original material that I have collected in the 1990s. These were mainly interviews with former prominent communists in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, and some US officials from the late 1960s.

Bio:

Tomas Sniegon is a graduate of journalism at Charles University in Prague and history at Lund University. He has a PhD in history and is an associate professor in European studies. He works at the department of European Studies at the Lund University in Sweden. His research focuses on modern European history, particularly the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century, and the development of Communism in the region, its crisis, collapse, and aftermath. He is the author of Vanished History. The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture.