"Kde je síla, tam je i svoboda!" Ukrajinské sokolské hnutí v meziválečném Československu

• Authors: Petr Lozoviuk

Title variants

EN

“Where there is strength, there is freedom!”. The Ukrainian Sokol movement in interwar Czechoslovakia

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The Ukrainian Sokol movement abroad is an interesting social phenomenon from the point of view of studying the formation of the modern Ukrainian nation. In addition to the cultivation of physical fitness, education for active patriotism occupied an important place in the Sokol ideology. The study traces the process of the development of a specific analogy of the Sokol movement in the conditions of the still forming Ukrainian nation in a historical perspective. The emphasis is placed on its institutionalisation in the conditions of the ethnic diaspora. The main source of information for such a focused study was the contemporary emigrant press and other publications published in the diaspora. The most comprehensive reports on the issues discussed can be found in the monthly Ukrainian Sokol, whose publisher was the Union of Ukrainian Sokol Abroad, the organisation that receives the most attention in the text. In addition to the formation of national consciousness, the role of Ukrainian Sokol lay in the consolidation of disparate Ukrainian currents of opinion in an environment of politically disunited emigration. The author concludes that the Sokol movement played a significant role in shaping the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism on the territory of the Czech lands during the period under study.

Keywords

EN

Ukrainian Sokol; interwar Czechoslovakia; Ukrainian nationalism; Ukrainian emigration

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 109
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 243-265
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Petr Lozoviuk

• Slovanský přehled, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic