I'm interested in reading about the daily life and culture of Czechoslovakia. What are some good book recommendations?

by cleopatra_philopater
nelliemcnervous

You didn't mention a particular time period, so here are some random recommendations:

  • Communist Czechoslovakia by Kevin McDermott is a good place to start for postwar history, and you can go through the footnotes.
  • Spartakiades by Petr Roubal is about mass gymnastic performances during the Communist period.
  • Making the Most of Tomorrow by Matěj Spurný is about the town of Most, which was demolished and relocated to make room for coal mining during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • The Greengrocer and his TV by Paulina Bren is the book that always comes up about everyday life and popular culture during the period after 1968.
  • The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation by Bradley Abrams is about political and intellectual culture immediately after World War II.
  • Prague by Chad Bryant is a history of the city through the lives of five different people, although I hasten to add that Prague is not the same thing as Czechoslovakia.
  • Sexual Liberation Socialist Style by Kateřina Lišková is about sexology, sexual liberation, and gender in Czechoslovakia during the Communist period.