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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

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

ISBN

9781032027487

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

135-149

Počet stran knihy

472

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

New York

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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