Ostře sledovaní železničáři : Železniční úřady a národnostní otázka v československé části Těšínského Slezska počátkem 20. let 20. století

• Authors: Grzegorz Gąsior

Title variants

EN

Closely watched railway workers : Railway authorities and the ethnic question in the Czechoslovak part of Cieszyn Silesia in the beginning of the 1920s

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In 1920 Cieszyn Silesia was divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland. One of the challenges for the Czechoslovak authorities was integration of this territory, which was largely inhabited by Polish and German populations. Most of the workers on the railways there, such as those on the important Košice-Bohumín track, were also Poles and Germans. In the beginning of the 1920s, the Czechoslovak railway authorities were attempting to diminish the influence of ethnic minorities in the region and to install Czechs into supervisory positions. They thus adopted a policy of transferring some of the railway employees of Polish and German ethnicity into the interior of the country. However, those who had sent their children to Czech schools were usually exempt from this policy.

Keywords

CS

dějiny; železnice

EN

history; railroads; railways; ethnic minorities

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: 2018
• Volume: 104
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 35-71
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Gąsior

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