Presidential Succession and the Republican Party in the Czechoslovak First Republic: The Election of Edvard Beneš as Czechoslovak President in 1935

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Presidential Succession and the Republican Party in the Czechoslovak First Republic: The Election of Edvard Beneš as Czechoslovak President in 1935

Original language description

Study of the election of Edvard Beneš to succeed Masaryk as President of Czechoslovakia completes detailed account of the political wheeling and dealing that led to Beneš succeeding his colleague and mentor in 1935. Study presents the results autor work of painstaking research into the political context of the 1935 Czechoslovak presidential elections. The degree of authority Masaryk enjoyed corresponded to the strength he had as president. Despite the limits the constitution placed on him, Masaryk took every opportunity to influence internal and foreign policy. Masaryk was elected president of the first Czechoslovak Republic four times. The study maps individual choices in the context of time (1918, 1920, 1927 and 1934). He closely follows the political situation in autumn 1935, when it was decided behind the scenes who will come after Masaryk. Many politicians sought to further curtail the next president&apos;s powers by electing either a nonpolitical figure or someone who had less political clout. That would exclude the candidacy of Masaryk&apos;s associate, Edvard Beneš (1884-1948), who long had served as Czechoslovakia&apos;s foreign minister. Masaryk, however, was determined to have Beneš succeed him, even if that meant staying in office longer than he had expected and well after his health had begun to deteriorate. In the end, Masaryk&apos;s resolve and Beneš&apos;s political adroitness managed to secure Beneš&apos;s election as president, despite the resistance of a large segment of the Republican party and politicians in other parties, all of whom either had personal misgivings about Beneš, disliked his politics, or felt that they could benefit more from a head of state who was more pliable and more accommodating than Beneš.resident

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Kosmas Czechoslovak and Central European Journal

ISSN

1056-005X

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Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

57-76

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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