Czech and Slovak demography / Milan Kučera and Zdeněk Pavlik -- Economic development and relations, 1918-89 / Václav Průcha -- Czech and Slovak society / Jiří Musil -- National consciousness and the common state / Jan Rychlik -- Slovakia in Czech national consciousness / Zdeněk Suda -- Mutual perceptions in Czech-Slovak relationships / Petr Příhoda -- Slovak exceptionalism / Miroslav Kusý -- Political power-sharing in the interwar period / Alena Bartlová -- From autonomy to federation, 1938-89 / Petr Pithart -- The politics of transition and the break-up of Czechoslovakia / Sharon L. Wolchik -- The velvet divorce, institutional foundations / Václav Žák -- The international context / Jacques Rupnik.