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This study of T.G. Masaryk deals with his pre-1914 career as a
professor and persistent dissenter. For three decades he was a
constant and unrelenting critic of conventional wisdom, established
institutions and customary practices in Bohemia and
Austria-Hungary. At every stage he was a radical dissident in all
questions of public life as well as in private matters: religion,
the nationality problem the place of women, labour and the social
question, parliament and government in the Monarchy, its foreign
affairs and foreign policy institutions, education, the courts and
legal system, the Catholic Church, and clericalism, the university
establishment, Czech politics and Czech political parties, the
interpretations of Czech history, and anti-semitism.
The book examines the history of Czechoslovakia in the seventy
years since its founding by T.G.Masaryk. It analyses the profound
changes which took place during the First Republic, the Nazi
occupation, postwar liberation and communist rule, including both
the Stalinist years, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the subsequent
period of normalization to 1988 .
The book examines the history of Czechoslovakia in the seventy
years since its founding by T.G.Masaryk. It analyses the profound
changes which took place during the First Republic, the Nazi
occupation, postwar liberation and communist rule, including both
the Stalinist years, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the subsequent
period of normalization to 1988.
Recording the views of dissidents on the nature of their own
activities, this book contains over 20 short essays by a number of
leading people from Charter 77. Contributors include Vaclav Havel,
Eva Kanturkova, Libuse Silhanova, and Zdenek Rotrekl.
Literature and historical writing among the Czechs, as among many
other nations lacking a political state, played a vital role in
promoting national consciousness. This volume, written to honour
the seventieth birthday of the eminent Czech historian Otakar
Odlozik, contains essays by outstanding scholars from Canada,
Czechoslovakia, Britain, and the United States which examine
significant episodes in the development of modern Czech nationalism
from its origins in the late eighteenth century to the birth of an
independent nation after the First World War. The main emphasis is
on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, which were crucial
for mapping the direction Czech nationalism was to take during the
subsequent hundred years. The stand of the Czech and Slovak peoples
in the crisis of August 1968 reflected the deep roots of their
patriotism which developed during the nineteenth-century national
renascence. This volume contains essays on Dobrovsky, the pioneer
of Czech language studies, and on Palacky, the author of the first
great national history, as well as on other facets of literary
history which have influenced national feeling. A Prague scholar
investigates the social structure of the early Czech patriotic
intelligentsia and reaches conclusions which considerably modify
hitherto existing views. Two contributions examine the role of the
press in the emergence of Czech nationalism; the Matice Ceska, a
leading patriotic literary foundation, is the subject of one of the
studies. Slovak and Lusatian Serb, German, and American reaction to
the Czech national renascence is examined in a series of chapters.
The political expression of Czech nationalism, first during the
Year of Revolutions, 1848, and then from the late 1870s until the
early years of the twentieth century, is subjected to analysis in
several studies. Finally, there is a brief review of the problems
associated with the Czech-Slovak background of Tomas Masaryk, the
creator of modern Czechoslovakia. A fitting tribute to an
outstanding scholar, this volume makes an important contribution to
the literature in English on nineteenth-century Czech lands.
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