Nástin vývoje českého pokrokářství

• Authors: Martin Kučera

Title variants

EN

Portrayal of the Development of the Czech Progressive Movement

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The essay does not try to present a detailed history of the progressive movement, it rather outlines its development as a specific manifestation of the Czech national, constitutional, and at the beginning also social radicalism. It follows individual stages in internal differentiation of the movement, which influenced a considerable part of Czech middle class intellectuals and to a lesser degree those of the working class. It attempts to identify its connections to other parts of the Czech political system in the stormy period on nationalistic animosities, struggle for reforms in the Habsburg Monarchy and the development of modern political parties that were of mass nature, however of an interest type. Since the author recently published a number of relevant monograph studies, in this particular study he mostly summarizes findings obtained so far. The author presents a new interpretation of the biography of a cofounder of the progressive movement Antonín Hajn (1867–1949) as well, who was the main carrier of its tradition.

Keywords

EN

Political parties history; Political history; Czech progessive movement; Czech radicalism

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: 2009
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9 – 22

Contributors

author

Martin Kučera

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