Jiří Pernes

Jiří Pernes ( born July 4, 1948 in Svitavy, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech historian.

Life and work

From 1984 to 1990 he was Director of the Historical Museum in Austerlitz from 1990 to 1992, he held the position of Director of the Moravian Museum, in 2011, he worked as director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. Jiří Pernes lectures at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University Ústí nad Labem and Masaryk University in Brno.

Pernes works at the Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ( AV ČR Ústav per soudobé Dejiny ) in Brno ( Czech Republic), he specializes there on the Moravian, Czech and Czechoslovak history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Works (selection)

• Spiklenci proti Jeho Veličenstvu aneb History tzv. spiknutí Omladiny v Čechách, Praha 1988
• Život PLNY nepřátel aneb Život a smrt Františka Ferdinanda d' Este, Praha 1995
• Habsburkové bez trůnu, Praha 1995 ( Habsburg throne without )
• Pod moravskou Orlicí aneb Dejiny moravanství, Brno 1996
• Maxmilián I. Mexický Císař z rodu Habsburků, Praha 1997
• Až na dno zrady. Emanuel Moravec, Prague 1997
• Pod Habsburským Orlem. České Země a Rakousko - Uhersko na přelomu 19 a 20 století, Praha 2001, 2006 ( Under the Hapsburg eagle)
• Takoví vládli nám. Komunističtí prezidenti Československa a doba, v niz Zili, Praha 2003
• František Josef I. Nikdy nekorunovaný český král, Praha 2005 ( Franz Josef I)
• Komunistky. S fanatismem v srdci, Prague 2006
• Krize komunistického režimu v Československu v 50 letech 20 století, Brno 2008 The Establishment and First Crisis of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia (1948-1958)
• Community Czechoslovakia on a Journey from a Consolidation of Totalitarianism Towards a Liberalization of the regime (1959-1967)

• From the protracted reform for accelerated change. In: Thomas Großbölting (Editor, Author), Roger Engelmann (Editor, Author), Hermann Wentker (Editor ), Bernd Bonwetsch (Author ), Matthias Braun ( Author), Bernd Florath ( Author), Winfried Heinemann (Author): Communism in crisis: the Stalinization in 1956 and the consequences. Analyzes and documents the Stasi. Cambridge University Press 2007, ISBN 978-3525350522, pp. 137-148.