Rudolf Kučera is director of the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and associate professor of history at the Charles University in Prague. His publica...view moreRudolf Kučera is director of the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and associate professor of history at the Charles University in Prague. His publications include Paths out of the Apocalypse Physical Violence in the Fall and Renewal of Central Europe, 1914-1922 (Oxford University Press, 2022. Together with Ota Konrád) and Rationed Life: Science, Everyday Life, and Working Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918 (Berghahn Books, 2016).view less