Charles University (Czechia)
Luboš Švec is an associate professor of modern history at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. He studied history at Charles University and received his doctorate from the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He focuses on the history of relations between Czech society, the Baltic nations and other nations of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as on the processes of nation-building and statehood in this region. He is the author of the historical text of the book History of the Baltic Countries(Prague 1996); the monographs Czechoslovakia and the Baltic States 1918-1939; Perestroika, the Baltic Republics and Czechoslovakia 1988-1991(Prague 2013); and the Lithuanian expanded version Perestroika, Baltijos republikos ir Čehoslovakija 1988-1991 (Vilnius 2017).