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Lusatia in the Plans of building the New Czechoslovakia great expectations and early disillusionment of the Czech Slavistis
Chodějovský, Jan ; Kvaček, Robert (advisor) ; Harna, Josef (referee) ; Kaleta, Petr (referee)
Lusatia in the plans of building the new Czechoslovakia. Great expectations and early disillusionment of the Czech Slavists. During the Great War, especially in the last year of the war, a number of representatives of Czech political and cultural life reflected upon an idea of a renewal of the Czech state in a historical borders of the former Czech crown lands. The independence of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed on October 28, 1918, by the Czechoslovak National Council in Prague. Only several years before, an independent Czechoslovakia had been a dream of a small number of intellectuals and politicians. The transformation of the dream into reality was a formidable task. While the creation of Czechoslovakia was based on certain historical precedents, it was, nevertheless, a new country carved out of disparate parts of the old Hapsburg Empire. This study deals with the matter of how Czechoslovak scientists, first of all slavists, intervened in the forming of Czechoslovak political programme. Slavists' role in the communal life of Czechoslovakia has been transforming due to changes that took place in both local and international politics. For a long time before they had no chance to participate at official state politics as there was not a sympathetic for Slavonic cooperation on an international level...
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Adolf Černý’s Polish impressions
Chodějovský, Jan
Adolf Černý, editor of the revue Slovanský přehled, had intensive contacts with Polish scholars for his whole life. He made number of journeys to Poland, for the first time in 1889. At that time Černý arrived to the country divided among three empires. He found a nation there fighting for its cultural, language and historical rights analogously to Czechs. But when he returned to Poland in early 1920s he came into diametrically different situation, after diplomatic and war conflict between newborn Czechoslovakia and Poland. The last longer visit of Poland he made with the group of Czechoslovak journalists in 1926. In Černý´s diaries, correspondence, or in newspaper articles about his journeys to Poland it is possible to discover not only the formation of his scholarly interests and acquisition of a reputation of notable Polonist (specialist for Poland), but also political transformation of Central Europe and evolvement of Czech-Polish relations.
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