Education
He studied at Charles University in Prague after it reopened in 1945 after World World War World War II
He studied at Charles University in Prague after it reopened in 1945 after World World War World War II
After the Czechoslovak coup d"état of 1948 he exiled himself to Geneva. While there he founded the monthly journal Skutecnost ("Reality"). The first issue came out in the spring of 1949 and Peter Hruby edited it for two years.
A selection of articles from Skutecnost are available in a collection titled Hluboka Stopa (A Lasting Impression), published by Vilém Prečan in 2008.
In 1969 Peter Hruby received an Master of Arts in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He worked as an editor and writer for Radio Free Europe in Munich from 1951 to 1957.
In 1957 he immigrated to the United States of America, and worked for Radio Free Europe as a senior editor and writer until 1964. In the evenings he attended Columbia University and obtained an Master of Arts in Eastern European Studies.
From 1965-1968 Peter Hruby taught for the University of Maryland, Overseas Divisions, then moved to Perth, Western Australia where he worked at Curtin University and then also from 1971 until 1999.
He was a visiting professor at Carleton University in 1985. In 2000 he moved back to Prague and taught at Charles University from 2001 to 2007. Peter Hruby published three books: Fools and Heroes: The Changing Role of Communist Intellectuals in Czechoslovakia, Daydreams and Nightmares: Czechoslovakian Communist and Ex-Communist Literature, and Dangerous Dreamers: The Australian Anti-Democratic Left and Czechoslovak Agents.
BOOKS
Hruby, Peter.
Fools and Heroes: The Changing Role of Communist Intellectuals in Czechoslovakia (Pergamon Press, 1980). Hruby, Peter. Daydreams and Nightmares: Czechoslovakian Communist and Ex-Communist Literature (East European Monographs, 1990).
Hruby, Peter. Dangerous Dreamers: The Australian Anti-Democratic Left and Czechoslovak Agents (iUniverse, 2010).
DISSERTATIONS
Hruby, Peter. Czechoslovakia Between the West and the East: The Changing Role of Communist Intellectuals (Western Australian Institute of Technology, 1979).
He returned to Geneva in 1978 to defend his Doctor of Philosophy dissertation, entitled Czechoslovakia Between the West and the East: The Changing Role of Communist Intellectuals.