The Formation of Czechoslovak Security Offices in Carpathian Ruthenia and Their Leading Cadres

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Formation of Czechoslovak Security Offices in Carpathian Ruthenia and Their Leading Cadres

Original language description

Public security in Carpathian Ruthenia was enforced by several armed corps units during the first years of its incorporation into Czechoslovakia. In addition to the regular army and border guards, the gendarmerie, military police and regular police all played a role in ensuring order and the authority of the new state. These security corps largely relied on Czech cadres from the Czech lands, only sporadically accepting recruits of other ethnicities, a decision that was derived from the presumed need for total loyalty and a knowledge of the service regulations based on Czech practices. Although local inhabitants were eventually accepted into these forces, this only happened after the ter ritory had been fully integrated; even under these conditions, candidates were vetted to identify those who lacked a grasp of the Czech language, those who were insufficiently educated or who had been accused of collaborating with the former Hungarian regime. The police forces were spearheaded by figures with unshakeable loyalty towards the newly established state such as the former legionaries who had fought for the liberation of Czechoslovakia during the war as well as participants in the anti-Habsburg Prague uprising of October 28th 1918. However, some officers were recruited even though they had previously served in the Austro-Hungarian state administration, primarily those who had indispensable professional skills. These men were dispatched to Ruthenia, gen erally for a brief period of time, where they would lay the foundations for the security corps that successfully resisted all of the pitfalls of the post-war and interwar periods, and successfully maintained public order in Carpathian Ruthenia until the Munich Agreement and the First Vienna Award of 1938–1939.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

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

2024

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

Civil servants under changing regimes in central and Eastern Europe in the first half of the 20th century

ISBN

978-80-8298-001-4

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

233-248

Publisher name

Spoločenskovedný ústav CSPV SAV

Place of publication

Košice

Event location

Košice

Event date

Jan 1, 2023

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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