In 2011 he directed the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

Its secretariat is hosted by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

He was also one of the politicians proposing the creation of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

The Prague-based Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes is regarded by many as a propagandistic institution.

The managing director is Neela Winkelmann of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

According to Daniel Herman, the Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, one of the first joint projects might be a European history textbook.

The initial activities of the Platform are funded by the International Visegrád Fund, and the project is co-ordinated by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

(Vojtech Ripka for the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes said, "There are two pieces of circumstantial evidence the police report and its sub-file, but we, of course, cannot be one hundred percent sure.

In 2009, Czech EU Presidency and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes invited all member states to participate in the joint establishment of a Platform of European Memory and Conscience.

Miroslav Lehký (born 1947) is a Czech/Slovak human rights activist and civil servant, and the current Deputy Director (since 2007) and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

Following a meeting in Prague in November 2008, representatives of 19 states and 12 partner institutions decided to establish a Working Group on the Platform of European Memory and Conscience, which was co-ordinated by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

He was the first Director (2008-2010) of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the Czech government agency and research institute tasked with investigation of the crimes of the Communist regime of Czechoslovakia that was declared to be criminal in 1993.

In 2008 the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes received media attention when a researcher published a controversial claim that the writer Milan Kundera had been a police informant who, in 1950, gave information leading to the arrest of a guest in a student hall of residence.