Czech(-oslovak) National Commemorations during the Interwar Period: Tomáš G. Masaryk and the Battle of White Mountain Avenged

0349428 - MÚA 2011 RIV SI eng J - Journal Article
Hájková, Dagmara - Wingfield, N.
Czech(-oslovak) National Commemorations during the Interwar Period: Tomáš G. Masaryk and the Battle of White Mountain Avenged.
Acta Histriae. Roč. 18, č. 3 (2010), s. 425-452. ISSN 1318-0185. E-ISSN 2591-1767
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z70900502
Keywords : Masaryk, T. G. * national identity * Czechoslovakia, history
Subject RIV: AB - History
Impact factor: 0.108, year: 2010

This article examines attempts to construct "Czechoslovak" national identity in the wake of the World War I through the creation of new celebrations and holidays. Drawing on archival material as well as a variety of contemporary books, newspapers, and pamphlets, the analysis reveals that the bourgeois, predominantly Czech rhetoric associated with these holidays, indeed, with the state itself, limited the attraction they exerted not only on the non-state-forming peoples of the countries, especially Germans and Hungarians, but also on the communists and, increasingly, some Slovaks.
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