Česká strana státoprávně pokroková v předvečer první světové války na jaře 1914

• Authors: Josef Tomeš

Title variants

EN

Czech Constitutional Progressive Party on the Eve of World War I in Spring 1914

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The political activities of the Czech Progressive Constitutional Party, largely differing from the major part of the Czech political arena, in the last months before the outbreak of World War I are explained. A description of the Party’s general profile, which continued the tradition of Czech progressionist movement of the 1890s and constituted a specific platform of modern Czech nationalism, is followed by the Party’s foreign political ideas expecting a global Paneuropean military conflict in the near future and relying on it as a way to solve the Czech question, i.e., to restore an independent Czech state based on the Czech historical constitutional right. The author follows and assesses the foreign political activities of the Czech Progressive Constitutional Party in spring 1914 and shows that it was the only party in the Czech political arena that was systematically preparing to the outbreak of a European war and linking the international solution to the Czech question to the Entente Powers, and thus anticipated the ways of anti-Austrian resistance movement during the war.

Keywords

EN

History; 19th and 20th century; Austria-Hungary; Cisleithania; Bohemian Lands; nationalist question; census

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 35-64

Contributors

author

Josef Tomeš

• Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, Praha, Czech Republic