Diplomacy and National Identity of Czechoslovakia in the Interwar Period: Appropriation, Thematization, Institutionalization and Sustainability

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F25940082%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000009" target="_blank" >RIV/25940082:_____/21:N0000009 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

—

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Diplomacy and National Identity of Czechoslovakia in the Interwar Period: Appropriation, Thematization, Institutionalization and Sustainability

Original language description

This chapter focuses on how the Czechoslovak national identity was formulated, appropriated and institutionalized after the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918. Czechoslovakia anchored its establishment in a strong narrative of Czech patriotism and nationalism. The main arguments were on 300 years of suffering in the jail of nations and on the climax of Czech history seen in the Hussite period of the 15th century, contrasted with the “Period of Darkness” of the 17th and 18th centuries. This concept originated already in the end of the 19th century in the context of the dispute on the meaning of Czech history. Even if this concept was criticized by influential thinkers such as Albín Bráf as a construct not corresponding to reality, thanks to its undisputed charisma and particularly of some of its components the concept enjoyed a high level of appropriation by the Czechs. It became an expression of the “Idea of the Czechoslovak state.” As such, it became a foundation for Czechoslovak foreign policy and diplomacy. This will be documented by conversation of President Edvard Beneš with František Uhlíř, nowadays forgotten, but in the 1930s and during the Second World War, one of the leading politicians of the Czechoslovak national socialist party.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

—

Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 1918–1923: The War That Never Ended

ISBN

9781032027487

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

135-149

Number of pages of the book

472

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

New York

UT code for WoS chapter

—