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Antonín Kalina. Příspěvek k portrétu českého politika a diplomata

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Vašek R.

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.

2009

vol. 1

issue 2

63 – 90

In the form of a biographical sketch the study introduces Antonín Kalina as a politician, diplomat and a long-standing deputy in the Czech Diet and Reichsrat, representing the Czech Constitutional Progressive Party. The text summarizes his pre-war as well as war activities, and since this period is generally less known, special attention is also paid to his activities after the World War I. As his career of a deputy was his most signifi cant political period, a review of activities of the Czech Constitutional Progressive Party and its representation in legislative bodies (Reichsrat, Czech Diet) in 1908–1918 is presented in the fi rst part of the study. Th is part explores the social and political setting and its infl uence on Antonín Kalina. Other significant personalities of the Czech Constitutional Progressive Party are mentioned briefly as well, particularly Kalina’s Parliamentary colleagues. Th e second part of the study focuses on Kalina’s activities after 1918, when he became the first Czechoslovak ambassador in Yugoslavia (more exactly, then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovines). Th is part explores the beginning and work of the Czechoslovak diplomatic service in Yugoslavia during fi rst post-war years, which were not without diffi culties and shortcomings.

Česká státoprávně pokroková strana za první světové války

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Tomeš J.

Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)

2015

vol. 23

issue 1

41-88

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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1 Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)

1 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.

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1 Tomeš J.

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Antonín Kalina. Příspěvek k portrétu českého politika a diplomata

Česká státoprávně pokroková strana za první světové války