Zbyněk Anthony Bohuslav Zeman (18 October 1928 – 22 June 2011) was a Czech historian who later became a naturalized British citizen. He published widely on the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century. As an academic, he taught at the Universities of

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. He also worked for ''

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. In particular, Zeman was responsible for organising the translation into English of ''A Chronicle of Current Events'', the samizdat periodical that documented human rights violations in the USSR from 1968 to 1982.

Selected works

* ''Uranium Matters: Central European Uranium in International Politics, 1900–1960'' (with Rainer Karlsch, Budapest: CEU Press, 2008) * ''The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884–1948: Czechoslovakia in Peace and War'' (Oxford:

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, 1997) * ''The Making and Breaking of Communist Europe'' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991) * ''Pursued by a Bear: The Making of Eastern Europe'' (London: Chatto & Windus, 1989) *
Heckling Hitler: Caricatures of the Third Reich
' (London: Tauris, 1984; 2nd edn. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987) * ''Selling the War: Art & Propaganda in World War II'' (London: Orbis Books, 1978) * ''Comecon Oil and Gas within the Overall Energy Context'' (with Jan Zoubek, London: Financial Times Press, 1977) * ''The Masaryks: The Making of Czechoslovakia'' (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976; reprinted by Tauris, 1990) * ''A Diplomatic History of World War I'' (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971; US edition as ''The Gentleman Negotiators: A Diplomatic History of World War I'', New York: Macmillan, 1971) * ''Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire'' (London: BPC Unit 75, 1971) * ''Prague Spring: A Report on Czechoslovakia 1968'' (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969) * ''The Merchant of Revolution: The Life of Alexander Israel Helpland (Parvus) 1867–1924'' (with Winfried Scharlau, London:

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, 1965) * ''Nazi Propaganda'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1964; 2nd edn. 1973) * ''The Break-Up of the Habsburg Empire 1914–1918: A Study in National and Social Revolution'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1961) *
Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915–1918: Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry
' (London: Oxford University Press, 1958)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zeman, Zbynek 20th-century Czech historians 20th-century British historians Academics of Lancaster University Academic staff of Charles University Academics of the University of St Andrews Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford Fellows of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Historians of communism Historians of Eastern Europe Historians of Nazism Historians of nuclear weapons Historians of World War I The Economist people 1928 births 2011 deaths People from Prague Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom