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Nationalities policy of the KSČ during the period of the First Republic
Čučela, Roman ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on the development of the nationalities policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, from the foundation of the party in 1921 until the signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938. The objective of the thesis is to describe the ways the nationalities policy of the KSČ developed, and the reasons why it has developed in certain ways. The thesis begins with a description of views on the nationalities question of the two approaches that influenced the nationalities policy of the KSČ, the Marxist-Leninist view and the view of Bohumír Šmeral, a significant social democratic representative before the foundation of KSČ and subsequently a founder of this party, and the ethnic situation in the newly created Czechoslovak Republic. The thesis continues with a chronological analysis of the party's nationalities policy, its criticisms and incentives for its change and the changes in the policy. The thesis covers the history of the party only during instances where its nationalities policy was either directly or indirectly influenced. The bachelor thesis is also concerned with the outcomes of KSČ parliamentary elections to the Chamber of Deputies, in electoral districts based on their ethnic composition, and how these electoral outcomes changed along with the shifts in the...
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