Peter was born in 1921. During the German occupation, Czech universities were closed and he had to work 12-hour long shifts in a factory. In his memoir he devotes more time to his skirmishes with the Communist Party before it seized total power by a putsch in February 1948. With help from several of his Professors at Charles University he launched a Children's Week of Joy devoted to their needs; in order to bring the two nations closer together, he created a society of Czech and Slovak students and initiated vacation ...
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Peter was born in 1921. During the German occupation, Czech universities were closed and he had to work 12-hour long shifts in a factory. In his memoir he devotes more time to his skirmishes with the Communist Party before it seized total power by a putsch in February 1948. With help from several of his Professors at Charles University he launched a Children's Week of Joy devoted to their needs; in order to bring the two nations closer together, he created a society of Czech and Slovak students and initiated vacation exchanges of children between families of both nations; and he established a Youth Club, affiliated with the association of the country's top cultural elite. A cultural-political journal he was preparing with the cooperation of 100 young intellectuals could not appear due to the Coup. In order to facilitate the escape of endangered anti-communists, he then organized a peat brigade on the border with Austria. He himself managed to leave his country legally, and in Geneva founded and led an important journal, Skutecnost (Reality) that promoted a new European and democratic program for his exiled compatriots. He obtained a Ph.D. in International Studies at the University of Geneva. His dissertation was published by the University of Geneva and, shortened by 1/3, by Oxford's Pergamon Press. Two books in English and three in Czech followed. From 1965 until 1970 he taught for the University of Maryland on American military bases in Thule (Greenland), Izmir (Turkey), West Berlin, Heidelberg, other German towns, and Peshavar (Pakistan). From 1971 to 2001 he taught in Perth, Western Australia. During semester breaks he traveled with his American wife to the Middle East, Afghanistan, India, Thailand and New Zealand. He was able to return to Prague to teach at his alma mater between 2001 and 2007. Then he retired to Annapolis, Maryland, to enjoy his daughter's family with two gorgeous grandsons. The memoir also narrates his personal life and professional a
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