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Formation of Czechoslovakia: Czech Politics and the Issue of State Territory
Bayer, Lukáš ; Moravcová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
The thesis is looking into the establishment of Czechoslovakia from the perspective of territorial claims of Czech (or more precisely Czechoslovak) policy. It deals with the period of time during World War I when the Czech politicians officially - first through Masaryk's resistance movement abroad and later (in the Spring 1917) on a domestic political scene (Austrian-Hungarian) declared their goal - to achieve independence. The end of the thesis then deals with the negotiations held at the post-war conference in Paris where it was definitely decided about fulfilment (or the opposite) of Czech territorial claims. Czech politicians aspired to establish an independent state which would be territorially larger than the actual territory inhabited by ethnic Czechs. During World War I a certain consensus was achieved as far as the basic territorial claims were concerned - Slovakia, Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, Serbian Luzice, Czech Land within its historical borders (i.e. even the territories that were populated by Germans and mostly Polish Tesin). As for Slovakia, Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia and Serbian Luzice, these territories were populated by Slavs (therefore inhabitants ethnically close to Czechs). However, this territory was formed by non-Slavic states (Hungary and Germany) and a strong nation- liberation movement...
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Formation of Czechoslovakia: Czech Politics and the Issue of State Territory
Bayer, Lukáš ; Moravcová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
The thesis is looking into the establishment of Czechoslovakia from the perspective of territorial claims of Czech (or more precisely Czechoslovak) policy. It deals with the period of time during World War I when the Czech politicians officially - first through Masaryk's resistance movement abroad and later (in the Spring 1917) on a domestic political scene (Austrian-Hungarian) declared their goal - to achieve independence. The end of the thesis then deals with the negotiations held at the post-war conference in Paris where it was definitely decided about fulfilment (or the opposite) of Czech territorial claims. Czech politicians aspired to establish an independent state which would be territorially larger than the actual territory inhabited by ethnic Czechs. During World War I a certain consensus was achieved as far as the basic territorial claims were concerned - Slovakia, Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, Serbian Luzice, Czech Land within its historical borders (i.e. even the territories that were populated by Germans and mostly Polish Tesin). As for Slovakia, Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia and Serbian Luzice, these territories were populated by Slavs (therefore inhabitants ethnically close to Czechs). However, this territory was formed by non-Slavic states (Hungary and Germany) and a strong nation- liberation movement...
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