Czechoslovakism

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.

Auteur

Adam Hudek is a senior researcher at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. His research concentration is the intellectual history of socialist Czechoslovakia. He is the editor in chief and coauthor of the work Overcoming the Old Borders. Beyond the Paradigm of Slovak National History (2013).

Michal Kopecek is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and co-director of Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. His work focuses on comparative history of political and social thought in East Central Europe. He is the co-author of the two-volume A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe (2018).

Jan Mervart is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of socialist Czechoslovakia. He is the coauthor of Karel Kosík and Dialectics of the Concrete (2021).

Contenu

Introduction

Czechoslovakism: The Concept's Blurry History

Michal Kopecek

Part I. Czechoslovakism before Czechoslovakia

1. Latent Czechoslovakism: A Topic of Politicization for Nineteenth-Century Liberal Elites

Vratislav Doubek

2. Czechoslovakist Arguments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Karol Hollý

3. Hungarian Governments, Authorities of Control and Supervision, and the Czechoslovakist Movement in1895-1914: Surveillance, Misinterpretations and Countermeasures

Ladislav Vörös

4. "Jews are the misfortune of Slovakia": Czechoslovakism and Antisemitism at the End of the Nineteenth and in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Miloslav Szabó

Part II. Czechoslovakism in the Time of "Nation State" Building

5. Conceptions of Czechoslovakism among Czech Politicians in Government Inauguration Debates 1918-1938

Elisabeth Bakke

6. Czechoslovakism in the first half of the Czechoslovak Republic: State-Building Concept or Hackneyed Old Phrase?

Milan Duchácek

7. The Positions of Major Slovak Political Movements on the Concept of Czechoslovakism during the Interwar Period

Róbert ArpáS and Matej Hanula

8. The Failure of Czechoslovakism as a State-Civic Concept: National Minorities in the Army, 1918-1945

Zdenko MarSálek

9. State Celebrations and the Construction of a Czechoslovak National Community during the First Republic

Miroslav Michela

10. The Idea of Czechoslovakism in Czech History Textbooks and Civic Education Textbooks Published Between 1918-1938

Dana smajstrlová

11. Czechoslovak Visual Arts

Milena Bartlová

Part III. Czechoslovakism during the Communist Dictatorship and Democratic Transformation

12. Slovak Communists and the Ideology of Czechoslovakism

Juraj Benko and Adam Hudek

13. Czechoslovakism and Ludakness in the 1960s Reform Period

Zdenek Doskocil

14. Czechoslovakism and the Party Theory of the "Nationality Question"

Jan Mervart

15. Debates on Czechoslovakism and Czechoslovak Identity in the Closing Years of the Federation, 1989-1992

TomáS Zahradnícek

16. The Problem of Czechoslovakism in Post-1989 Slovakia

Norbert Kmet

17. Yugoslavism Throughout the Twentieth Century: Developments and Tendencies

Ondrej Vojtechovský - Boris Moskovic - Jan Pelikán