The Struggle for Respect: The State, World War One Veterans, and Social Welfare Policy in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.107" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.107</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.107" target="_blank" >10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.107</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Struggle for Respect: The State, World War One Veterans, and Social Welfare Policy in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Original language description

The article focuses on Czechoslovakia’s social policies towards veterans, with regard to both the extent and the form of provision. Upon returning to their homeland, World War One veterans became one of the key subjects of social welfare policy inthe post-war European order. Czechoslovakia started to develop its veterans’ social welfare legislation straight after the end of the conflict. From the Czechoslovak government’s point of view, only legionnaires, war invalids, and professional soldiers, together with their relatives and surviving family members, constituted worthy recipients of social welfare. The ideological basis for this policybecame “politically desired heroism”, which helped to define what comprised a rightful entitlement tosocial provision. While the state strove to find a balance between veterans’ wartime achievements and social welfare benefits, the veterans formulated multiple criticisms of the existing welfare system and repeatedly expressed their dissatisfaction with it. The author outlines four basic types of political activism among World War One veterans in the Bohemian territories. The article raises the question as towhat and howmuch, the state was willing to offer veterans, as well as examining whowas entitled to get support and why.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

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

<a href="/en/project/GF17-33831L" target="_blank" >GF17-33831L: WWI Veterans in Czechoslovakia and Austria 1918-38</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Zeitgeschichte

ISSN

0256-5250

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

107-134

UT code for WoS article

000524247900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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