 | Alexander Bobrakov-Timoshkin. The “Czechoslovakia” Project: the ideologies conflict in the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938)
140õ215 (60õ90/16), hard cover, 224 pp., 2008
ISBN 978-5-86793-578-8
The first Czechoslovak republic which had lasted for twenty years only, left us with an interesting cultural and political heritage. The arguments about it are still going on today. What was that interwar Czechoslovakia: a democratic “bastion” in the heart of Europe or a state based on national oppression? Was it an incarnation of the nations’ rights for self-determination, or was it a Versailles system’s offspring doomed to die? The interwar Czechoslovakia is presented in this book as an ideological “project”. It’s political history is viewed through the prism of the ideologies conflict: ethnic nationalism and the idea of a “political nation”, liberal humanism and totalitarian theories. As a result, the “case” of Czechoslovakia is seen as a “laboratory” for studying the processes happening in young states which have emerged on the ruins on an empire.
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