Czechoslovakism
This collection systematically approaches the concept of Czechoslovakism and its historical progression, covering the time span from the mid-nineteenth century to Czechoslovakias dissolution in 1992/1993, while also providing the most recent research on the subject.
Czechoslovakism was a foundational concept of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic and it remained an important ideological, political and cultural phenomenon throughout the twentieth century. As such, it is one of the most controversial terms in Czech, Slovak and Central European history. While Czechoslovakism was perceived by some as an effort to assert Czech domination in Slovakia, for others it represented a symbol of the struggle for the Republics survival during the interwar and Second World War periods. The authors take care to analyze Czechoslovakisms various emotional connotations, however their primary objective is to consider Czechoslovakism as an important historical concept and follow its changes through the various cultural-political contexts spanning a century and a half OR one and half centuries.
Including the work of many of the most eminent Czech and Slovak historians, this volume is an insightful study for academic and postgraduate student audiences interested in the modern history of Central and Eastern Europe, nationality studies, as well as intellectual history, political science and sociology.
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 Kopeek is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and co-director of Imre Kertsz Kolleg in Jena. His work focuses on comparative history of political and social thought in East Central Europe. He is the coauthor of the two-volume A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe (2016, 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 Kosk and Dialectics of the Concrete (forthcoming).
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Czechoslovakism
Adam Hudek, Michal Kopeek, and Jan Mervart
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Names: Hudek, Adam, editor, author. | Kopeek, Michal, editor, author. | Mervart, Jan, editor, author.
Title: Czechoslovakism / edited by Adam Hudek, Michal Kopeek and Jan Mervart.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2022. |
Series: Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: LCSH: Czechoslovakia--Historiography. | Czechoslovakia--History. | Czech Republic--Historiography. | Slovakia--Historiography.
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Contents
Czechoslovakism: the concept's blurry history
Michal Kopeek
PART I Czechoslovakism before Czechoslovakia
Latent Czechoslovakism: a topic of politicization for nineteenth-century liberal elites
Vratislav Doubek
Czechoslovakist arguments at the turn of the twentieth century
Karol Holl
Hungarian governments, authorities of control and supervision, and the Czechoslovakist movement in 18951914: surveillance, misinterpretations and countermeasures
Lszl Vrs
The 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 Szab
PART II Czechoslovakism in the time of nation-state building
Conceptions of Czechoslovakism among Czech politicians in government inauguration debates 19181938
Elisabeth Bakke
Czechoslovakism in the first half of the Czechoslovak republic: state-building concept or hackneyed old phrase?
Milan Duchek
The positions of major Slovak political movements on the concept of Czechoslovakism during the interwar period
Rbert Arp And Matej Hanula
The failure of Czechoslovakism as a state-civic concept: national minorities in the army, 19181945