The Czech and Slovak Experience : Selected Papers From the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990

Annotation The Czech and Slovak Experience assembles essays by leading specialists from the USA, Canada, Britain and Czechoslovakia on key aspects of modern Czech and Slovak history: Joseph II's contribution to the development of the Czech national movement, the troubled relationship between Czechs and Slovaks as seen through Czech and Slovak eyes, Slovak linguistic separatism, the emergence of political democracy in post-Versailles Czechoslovakia, Masaryk as a religious heretic, Czechoslovakia's Germans and their treatment by the Czechoslovak government, and Prague's Jewish community after 1918 Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-6 The Odd Alliance: The Underprivileged Population of Bohemia and the Habsburg Court, 1765–1790....Pages 7-20 Czechs, Slovaks, and the Slovak Linguistic Separatism of the Mid-Nineteenth Century....Pages 21-37 Slovakia in the Czech Press at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries....Pages 38-61 Masaryk: Religious Heretic....Pages 62-88 The Czechoslovak Government and its ‘disloyal’ opposition, 1918–1938....Pages 89-101 Václav Klofáč and the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party....Pages 102-123 Antonín àvehla: Master of Compromise....Pages 124-135 Slovak Considerations of the Slovak Question: The Ludak, Agrarian, Socialist and Communist Views in Interwar Czechoslovakia....Pages 136-162 Czechoslovakia between the Wars: Democracy on Trial....Pages 163-166 Dr Edvard Beneš and Czechoslovakia’s German Minority, 1918–1943....Pages 167-202 The German Social Democratic Party of Czechoslovakia, 1918–1926....Pages 203-217 Czech, German or Jew: The Jewish Community of Prague during the Inter-war Period....Pages 218-229 Back Matter....Pages 231-235 This book contains essays by leading specialists from the USA, Canada, Britain and Czechoslavakia on key aspects of modern Czech and Slovak history which are of direct contemporary relevance. Essays include the tracing of the source of the Czech national movement to Josef II's encouragement of self-assertion by the Czech serfs, the importance of language in the emergence of Slovak national consciousness, and the ambivalent attitude of many Czech intellectuals to the Slovak's plight Contains essays on aspects of modern Czech and Slovak history which are of contemporary relevance. The essays contained in this book include the tracing of the source of the Czech national movement and the importance of language in the emergence of Slovak national consciousness.