Czech Soldiers during the Great War (1914-1918)

0482557 - HÚ 2018 RIV RS eng J - Journal Article
Hladký, Ladislav
Czech Soldiers during the Great War (1914-1918).
Tokovi istorije. Roč. 24, č. 3 (2016), s. 71-83. ISSN 0354-6497
Institutional support: RVO:67985963
Keywords : first world war * Austria-Hungary * Czech soldiers * eastern (Russian) front * southwest (Italian) front * Czechoslovak legionnaries * Czechoslovakia
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The goal of this article is to objectively assess the conduct of Czech soldiers during the First World War: In the past, this issue war, for various ideological reasons, greatly oversimplified. German national propaganda portrayed Czech soldiers fighting in the uniforms of the Austro-Hungarian Army in the period 1914-1918 as a very unreliable element, owing to their Slavic sentiments. In this article the author reflects upon the Czech historiographic production on the First World War at the turn of the 20th and 21th centuries and attempts to present a balanced (non-national) perspective on the subject.
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