0510114 - ÚSD 2020 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Kopeček, Michal
Czechoslovak Interwar Democracy and Its Critical Introspections.
Journal of Modern European History. Roč. 17, č. 1 (2019), s. 7-15. ISSN 1611-8944. E-ISSN 2631-9764
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : human rights * liberal democracy * nationalism * state-building
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impact factor: 0.306, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1611894418820217

The article deals with internal critical reflections of the first Czechoslovak republic’s democratic practice. It starts with T. G. Masaryk’s understanding of politics and democracy, after which it turns to two specific areas of Masarykian influence: the political culture as symbolized by the so-called „pragmatic generation” of the liberal democratic intelligentsia and, second, the nationality question, the central sore point of interwar Czechoslovak state-building. Special attention is devoted to the thought of philosopher, social activist and controversial public intellectual, Emanuel Rádl.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0300734