Príbeh československých légií

• Authors: Vrabel Ferdinand

Title variants

EN

THE CZECHOSLOVAK LEGION STORY

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The essay provides a brief summarizing overview on the development and history of the Czechoslovak volunteer armed forces in the years of World War I., an introduction to the issue of the development and functioning of armad units that - fighting together with the Entente powers (Russia, France, Great Britain, and Italy) - contributed to the creation of the independent Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. The author depicts the development of an idea to create resistant movement of Czechs and Slovaks, which led to the establishment of political centre of the Czech (later Czechoslovak) National Council with the seat in Paris and under the leadership of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Edvard Benes, and Milan Rastislav Stefanik. He also devotes himself to the period beginning with creation of the first units fighting with the Entente powers until the time when the Czechoslovak Brigade fighting in the battle of Zborov (2 July 1917), the individual divisions in Russia, France, Italy and even the Czechoslovak Corps in revolutionary Russia were set up. The essay commemorates also the anabasis of Russian legions on their way from Ukraine through Siberia to Vladivostok and their return back home in 1920. The conclusion of the essay informs about the next fates of legionnaires at home, about the legionnaire organizations, the significance of legionnaire traditions for new Czechoslovak army, the participation of legionnaires in the second resistant movement (1938-1945), the communist persecution of legionnaires and the renewal and work of the Czechoslovak Legionnaires Community after 1989. It puts stress on the need to recall the history of legions in order to bring up young people to patriotism and to strengthen the national identity.

Keywords

EN

ARMY; AUSTRIA-HUNGARY; CZECHOSLOVAK LEGIONNAIRES COMMUNITY; CZECHOSLOVAK LEGIONS; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; WORLD WAR I

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 159-169
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vrabel Ferdinand

• Ferdinand Vrabel, Narodni ustav lidove kultury se sidlem ve Straznici, Zamek 672, 696 62 Straznice, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA09821