Beneš známý i neznámý. Obraz Edvarda Beneše v memoárech pamětníků

• Authors: Josef Tomeš , Richard Vašek

Title variants

EN

Beneš known and unknown. The image of Edvard Beneš in the memoirs of his contemporaries

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The personality of Edvard Beneš is firmly rooted in Czech national memory. However, his historic role is viewed even in the Czech milieu in different ways, the main reasons thereof being the fact that he is closely linked with the totally different opinions concerning the solution of two fatal crises in modern Czech history: the Munich Agreement in the fall of 1938 and the Communist coup of February 1948. The present study focuses on the image of Edvard Beneš available in some less known or even unknown memoirs, mostly unpublished, namely those of Josef David, Aša Jínová, or Jan Jína, Vlastimil Klíma, František Ježek, Vratislav Trčka, Jan Kapras Junior, and Karel Lőbl. Each of them shows Beneš from a different historical, personal and generation-dependent point of view and emphasizes different political and personal features.

Keywords

EN

history; 20th Century; Czechoslovakia; Edvard Beneš; Munich 1938; February 1938; memoirs

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: 2013
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 103-121

Contributors

author

Josef Tomeš

• Masarykův ústav a Archiv Akademie věd České republiky, Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Praha, Czech Republic

author

Richard Vašek

• Masarykův ústav a Archiv Akademie věd České republiky, Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Praha, Czech Republic