Tělo, židovství, bolševismus a česky nacionalismus (1918–1920)

• Authors: Vít Strobach

Title variants

EN

Body, Jewishness, Bolshevism and Czech Nationalism (1918–1920)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study focuses on the Czech nationalism in the first years of interwar Czechoslovakia and explores in detail the particular figure of Judeo-Bolshevism, as it was used in the Czech national discourse. Use of the term of the Jewish “race”, which was supposed to strive for power, was to help in uniting the national society and discard everything, which did not fi t within the framework of uniformly represented “national interest”. Stigmatizing bolshevism (communism) by its presumed “Jewishness” was used as an intelligible component of the identity language and helped to preserve the Czech „national unity“ as a main pillar of the newly founded state. The revolutionary project of the radical left therefore could have been positioned outside of this framework and thereby displaced out of the unified national collective.

Keywords

EN

Interwar Czechoslovakia; Czech nationalism; Judeo-Bolshevism; Communism

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 23 – 53

Contributors

author

Vít Strobach

• Redakce časopisu Střed, Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v.v.i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00, Prague 8, Czech Republic