Czechoslovakism

ISBN-13: 9781032070728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 490 str.

Adam Hudek; Michal Kopeček; Jan Mervart

Opis

This collection systematically approaches the concept of Czechoslovakism and its historical progression, covering the time span from the mid-19th century to Czechoslovakia’s dissolution in 1992/1993, whilst also providing the most recent research on the subject.

Spis treści

Introduction: Czechoslovakism: the concept’s blurry history  Part One: From Kollár to Masaryk 1. Latent Czechoslovakism: a topic of politicization for 19th century liberal elites  2. Czechoslovakist reasoning at the turn of the 19th and 20th century  3. Hungarian government, administrative and supervisory bodies and the Czechoslovakist movement, 1895-1914: surveillance, misinterpretation and countermeasure  4. “Jews are Slovakia’s misfortune”: Czechoslovakism and antisemitism from the late 19th to the mid-20th century  Part Two: Czechoslovakism in the time of “nation-state” building 5. Czechoslovakism in the first half of the Czechoslovak Republic: state-building concept or hackneyed old phrase?  6. Czechoslovakism in the eyes of interwar Slovak political parties 7. The failure of Czechoslovakism as a state-civic concept: the army and its minorities, 1918-1945  8. State festivities and constructing a Czechoslovak national community during the First Republic  9. The idea of Czechoslovakism in Czech history and civic education textbooks published between 1918-1938  10. Czechoslovak visual arts  Part Three: Czechoslovakism during the communist dictatorship and democratic transformation 11. Czechoslovak ideology and Slovak communists  12. Discussions of Czechoslovakism and luďák-ness in the reformist era of 1960s  13. Czechoslovakism and Party theory of the so-called “national question”  14. Debating Czechoslovakism and Czechoslovak identity in the federation’s final years, 1989-1992  15. The problem of Czechoslovakism in Slovakia after November 1989  16. Yugoslavism throughout the 20th century: developments and tendencies