HOSTINSKÁ ZAŘÍZENÍ V BOJI ZA STÁTNÍ SAMOSTATNOST ČESKOSLOVENSKA A PŘI JEJÍM VYHLÁŠENÍ

• Authors: Altman Karel

Title variants

EN

Pubs in the fight for Czechoslovakia’s independence at the time of its declaration

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Pubs have long served as places of interpersonal communication, developed not only by by-passers, but mainly by regular houseguests. Such communication included political discussions and disputes, frequently on the position of the Czech nationality in Central Europe and its historical role in it. Disputes on this topic were strictly forbidden during World War I and would be conducted illegally; their content became gradually radicalised until it acquired a revolutionary character, directing the insurgent expressions of the debaters towards their active involvement in the attempts to achieve the leaving of Czech lands (together with Slovakia) from the Habsburg monarchy. This process culminated with the relatively spontaneous declaration of state independence at the end of October 1918, in which pubs played a special role as centres – though considerably restricted – of social life: from common pubs up to fancy club houses of the middle-class elite.

Keywords

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WORLD WAR I; CZECH LANDS; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; PUBS

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 276 – 286

Contributors

author

Altman Karel

• Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i, pracoviště Brno, Veveří 97,602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.26363/SN.2018.3.02