PhDr. Emil Voráček, DrSc.

Research areas

Russian and Soviet history in the 19th and 20th centuries, social and economic developments, including Russian political and sociological thought, especially Russian emigration: Eurasianism and neo-Eurasianism, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in the 20th century, transformation and return to democracy in Central Eastern Europe

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

1971–1975: Master in History – Political Economy, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Československo-sovětské zbrojní obchody a technické kontakty 1935–1938 / Czechoslovak-Soviet Arms Deals and Technical Contacts 1935–1938

1976: Rigorosum proceedings (PhDr.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University

1981: Ph.D. (CSc.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Československo-sovětské hospodářské vztahy 1945–1948 / Czechoslovak-Soviet Economic Relations 1945–1948

2002: DrSc., Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, thesis title: Eurasijství v ruském politickém myšlení. Osudy jednoho z porevolučních ideových směrů ruské meziválečné emigrace / Eurasianism in Russian Political Thought. The Fates of One of post-Revolutionary Ideological Directions of Russian between Wars Emigration

Foreign internships and scholarships

1/1979–2/1980: Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, study stay
9–12/1987: Institute for General History, Berlin, study stay
11–12/1989: Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt/Main, study stay
6/1990: Gottfried Herder Institut, Marburg/Lahn, study stay
11–12/1990: London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, scholarship
1/1991: Institute of Slavonic Studies, Paris, France, scholarship
6–9/1991: Dept. of History, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, study stay
8–9/1992: Institute for East European Studies, Vienna, scholarship
7/1993: Herder Institut, Marburg/Lahn, study stay
5–7/1994: Institute for Political Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy at Humboldt University, Berlin, study stay and teaching
11–12/1995: Berlin Historical Commission, scholarship
9–10/1995: Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
8–9/1996: Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
10–12/1996: Institute for Political Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy at Humboldt University, Berlin, scholarship
4–5/1997: Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
10–12/1997:Humboldt University, Berlin, DAAD scholarship
11–12/1999: Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
11/1999: Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin, scholarship
11–12/2000: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
11–12/2001: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
6–7/2002: Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
2–4/2003: Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, stipendium
9–10/2004: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
9–10/2005: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
10–11/2008: Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, study stay
11–12/2008: Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, study stay
6–7/2009: Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, study stay
12/2011: Soochow University, Centre for Central and Eastern European Studies, Tchaipei, Tchaivan, scholarship
5–6/2019: Jilin University, Changchun, ČLR, study stay and teaching

International grants and projects

1997: Transformation in Ostmitteleuropa. Politische, wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen 1989–1996. Gesamtüberblick und zwei Fallstudien. Tschechoslowakei und Ostdeutschland. Vergleich 1997 / Transformation in East Central Europe. Political, Economic and Social Developments 1989–1996. General Overview and Two Case Studies. Czechoslovakia and East Germany. Comparison 1997, Grant of the German Academic Exchange Service, Investigator: prof. Dieter Segert, Humboldt University Berlin, co-Investigator

Domestic grants and major projects

1991–1993: Dějiny Sovětského svazu 1945–1991/ History of the Soviet Union 1945–1991, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Grant Agency, reg. n. 93401, beneficiary: Institute of Central and Eastern European History of the CSAV, Principal Investigator

1991–1993:  Krize a rozpad sovětského bloku v 70.–80. letech/ The Crisis and the Collapse of the Soviet Bloc in the 70s and 80s, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Grant Agency, reg. n. 93402, beneficiary: Institute of Central and Eastern European History of the CSAV, Principal Investigator

1995–1997: Armáda jako nástroj státní integrace SSSR 1923–1941 / Armed Forces as an Instrument of the USSR 1923–1941, Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Grants of Distinctly Investigative Character Focused on the Sphere of Research Pursued at Present, Particularly in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, reg. n. A9015501, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

1995–1997: Místo eurasijství v ruském politickém myšlení / The Place of Eurasianism in the Russian Political Thought, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 404/95/0309, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator   

2001–2003: Stalin a sebedestrukce bolševiků. Formování stalinského systému moci v SSSR 1932–1939 / Stalin and Autodestruction of the Bolshevisk. Formation of the Stalinist System of Power in the USSR in 1932–1939, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 409/01/0025, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator   

2006–2008: VKS(b), Kominterna a KSČ 1929–1943, vědecká edice dokumentů / VKP(b), Comintern and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 1929–1943. Scholarly Edition of Documents, Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Grants of Distinctly Investigative Character Focused on the Sphere of Research Pursued at Present, Particularly in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, reg. n. A800150603, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator   

2008–2012: Komunistická strana Československa a bolševismus / Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and Bolshevism, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 409/08/1621, beneficiary: Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS, team member

Teaching activities

Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (1999–2010)
Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies, Faculty of International Relations, Prague University of Economics and Business (2010–2015)
Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2018–2019)

Membership of editorial boards

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Slavonic Review [Slovanský přehled]

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Vice-Chairman of the Czech-Russian Commission of Historians and Archivists [Česko-ruská komise historiků a archivářů] (since 1999)
Member of the Subject-Area Board of the Doctoral Programme Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (2000–2012)
Member of the Doctoral Degree Program Board of the Doctoral Programme International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Prague University of Economics and Business (since 2010)
Member of the Evaluation Board of the German Academic Exchange Service [Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst] (1995–2010)
Member of the Advisory Board of the Masaryk Democratic Academy, lecturer of the Masaryk Democratic Academy [Masarykova demokratické akademie] (since 2007)
Member of the Public Intellectuals expert community [Veřejní intelektuálové] (consultative institute of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic) (since 2014)
Scientific Secretary of the National Committee of the Society for Research on Easter and Central Europe in the Czechoslovak (now Czech) Republic [Společnost pro výzkum východní a střední Evropy v ČR] (1991–2001)
Chairman of the National Committee of the Society for Research on Easter and Central Europe in the Czech Republic (2001–2015)
Member of the Executive Committee of International Council on Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) (2000–2015)
Member of the International Political Science Association (since 2016)
Member of the Research Committee 08 – Legislative Specialists (RCLS-08; International Political Science Association, IPSA) (since 2016)