"Žižka, Not Švejk" War Memory and Masculinity among Czech Veterans of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Interwar Czechoslovakia

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"Žižka, Not Švejk" War Memory and Masculinity among Czech Veterans of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Original language description

The traditional image of war remembrance in interwar Czechoslovakia usually involves a “culture of victory” celebrating the new republic, with the Czechoslovak Legion in a prominent position regarding the successful fight for freedom. However, large swathes of the Czech-speaking majority (German or other speakers notwithstanding) suffered from what can be almost equaled with a “culture of defeat”, as 90% of Czech-speaking veterans had only served in the Austro-Hungarian military during the war. While their plight has received some attention in the historical writing over the recent years, the chapter aims to show how gender identity has played an important role in the way these men re-remembered and re-invented their past during 1920s and 1930s in a way that would put their experience closer to the official “culture of victory” and enable them to reclaim their sense of masculinity through positive images of their military past. Over the course of analysis based mostly on published reflections, memoirs, and articles in veterans´ association press, the text identifies popular literary representations, the Great Depression, and the 1930s international politics, as well as shifts in individual experience of masculine identities as key factors influencing the way Czech-speaking veterans dealt with their past.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

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

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

Erinnerungsbilder und Gedächtniskonstruktionen Fallstudien zum Erbe des Ersten Weltkriegs in Zentraleuropa (1918–1939)

ISBN

978-3-593-51848-0

Number of pages of the result

22

Pages from-to

85-106

Number of pages of the book

258

Publisher name

Campus Verlag

Place of publication

Frankfurt / New York

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