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The paper deals with the „second life“ of the Czech State-Saw Progress party that existed formally between 1908 and 1918, but the members of which continued to form a strong party platform within the Czech National Democracy even after the First World War. Despite having any institutional basis within the Czech National Democracy the former progressivists forged their shared political identity through various commemorative actions, publishing activities or through forming of several clubs and associations. The former „progressivists“ thus formed a distinct stream of political thought within the biggest stronghold of Czech rightwing nationalism that strived to build the interwar Czechoslovakia as a nation state of the alleged Czechoslovak nation. The paper pays special attention to the person of Viktor Dyk who most visibly embodied the tradition of the progressivist ideology from the period prior to 1914. Viktor Dyk engaged already in the 1920s in polemics with the president Tomas G. Masaryk where he stood for the Czech rightwing nationalism, echoing vigorous debates that unfolded within the Czech right already after 1900. The paper also focuses on the anti-Nazi resistance of the former progresivists during the Second World War as well as the place which some of the main persons took in the Czech national memory.
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Almost all contemporaries were taken unawares by the First World War, including members of the Czech Constitutional Progressive Party which had been expecting a war for a number of years and had linked it to a deciding moment in the history of the struggle for Czech national liberation. And yet suddenly from one day to the next they found themselves face to face with the new war situation, manifesting itself as a de facto military and police dictatorship and previously unknown censorship. In the spirit of its political traditions, the party was involved in organising domestic and international resistance and was a principal adversary to ‘Pro-Austrian’ activism. In February 1918, it merged with other Czech civic parties striving for an independent Czech state to form the Czech Constitutional Democratic Party. Constitutional Progressive politicians and journalists played a key part in the final, but decisive, phase of the national liberation struggle – both within the new party and independently. Amidst the general euphoria of the first few weeks after the revolution, it appeared that the mission of the Constitutional Progressive Party had come to a definitive close, but the party’s ideas left an inheritance which was still to be updated in subsequent years in the struggle for the form and nature of the Republic.
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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.
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The study summarizes the history of the Czech Constitutional Progressive Party, a special voice of the radical Czech nationalism at the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first political party, which incorporated the idea of an independent Czech state outside the framework of Austria-Hungary, counted with the international solution of the Czech question, and stood in the forefront of domestic and foreign resistance during the World War I.
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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.
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This article briefly surveys the until now published memoir literature on the history of the Munich Crisis of 1938. It also presents information on the until now unpublished, yet relevant, memoirs, relating to this theme.
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