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This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Stefanik
(1880-1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he
became the Slovak national hero. Although he is relatively unknown
internationally, his contemporaries compared him "to Choderlos de
Laclos for the use of military tactics in love affairs, to Lawrence
of Arabia for vision, to Bonaparte for ambition ... and to one of
apostles for conviction". He played the key role in founding an
independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 through his relentless worldwide
travels during the First World War in order to create the
Czechoslovak Army: he visited Serbia and Romania on the eve of
invasion by the Central Powers, Russia before the February
revolution, the United States after it declared war on Germany,
Italy dealing with the consequences of defeat in the Caporetto
battle, and again when Russia plunged into Civil War. Several
historical methods are used to analyse the aforementioned central
research question of this biography such as social capital to
explain his rise in French society, the charismatic leader to
understand how he convinced and won over a relatively large number
of people; more traditional political, military, and diplomatic
history to show his contribution to the founding of Czechoslovakia,
and memory studies to analyse his extraordinary popularity in
Slovakia. By mapping his intriguing life, the book will be of
interest to scholars in a broad range of areas including history of
Central Europe, especially Czechoslovakia, international relations,
social history, French society at the beginning of the 20th century
and biographical research.
This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Stefanik
(1880-1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he
became the Slovak national hero. Although he is relatively unknown
internationally, his contemporaries compared him "to Choderlos de
Laclos for the use of military tactics in love affairs, to Lawrence
of Arabia for vision, to Bonaparte for ambition ... and to one of
apostles for conviction". He played the key role in founding an
independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 through his relentless worldwide
travels during the First World War in order to create the
Czechoslovak Army: he visited Serbia and Romania on the eve of
invasion by the Central Powers, Russia before the February
revolution, the United States after it declared war on Germany,
Italy dealing with the consequences of defeat in the Caporetto
battle, and again when Russia plunged into Civil War. Several
historical methods are used to analyse the aforementioned central
research question of this biography such as social capital to
explain his rise in French society, the charismatic leader to
understand how he convinced and won over a relatively large number
of people; more traditional political, military, and diplomatic
history to show his contribution to the founding of Czechoslovakia,
and memory studies to analyse his extraordinary popularity in
Slovakia. By mapping his intriguing life, the book will be of
interest to scholars in a broad range of areas including history of
Central Europe, especially Czechoslovakia, international relations,
social history, French society at the beginning of the 20th century
and biographical research.
This volume compares different regional perspectives on the
national and democracy-building aims of individual states. It
confronts discourses about national states to regional perspectives
on the past as well as the current political and social landscape.
Why are we observing calls for national identity right now? What
are the roots of this development? How can a Central European
identity be shaped when national perspectives are prevalent?The
books first part analyses social and political processes that
shaped nation-states in the Central European region and shows
divergent trends of individual states when it comes to defining a
regional approach of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Hungary = V4). The second part focuses on key
personalities of the 20th century history of individual V4
countries in the light of their perception in the neighbouring
states and how they shaped national states as well as identities
after the end of World War II. Similar aims and approaches
implemented by individual countries often led to anything but
raising regional understanding. The books third part reflects upon
activities of various initiatives aiming to approach this challenge
from the perspective of civil society, and Central Europes young
generation. The collection brings together leading historians of
Central Europe from the V4 countries. It also offers external
perspectives on historical developments in Central Europe from the
perspective of the 21st century and on political cooperation as
well as its roots. Lastly, it includes practitioners of Central
European cooperation from both academia and civil society, and
their reflection on their countries political cooperation after
1989.
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